The healing a novel

ISBN: 9780385534680 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 038553468X (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource remote 1 online resource (340 p.)
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2012.

Odell, Jonathan 1951- (Author).

Summary: Mississippi plantation mistress Amanda Satterfield loses her daughter to cholera after her husband refuses to treat her for what he considers to be a "slave disease." Insane with grief, Amanda takes a newborn slave child as her own and names her Granada, much to the outrage of her husband and the amusement of their white neighbors. Seventy-five years later, Granada, now known as Gran Gran, is still living on the plantation and must revive the buried memories of her past in order to heal a young girl abandoned to her care. Together they learn the power of story to heal the body, the spirit and the soul.