Lazaretto

by Diane McKinney-Whetstone

Book Overview

This stunning new novel from Diane McKinney-Whetstone, nationally bestselling author of Tumbling, begins in the chaotic backstreets of post-Civil War Philadelphia as a young black woman gives birth to a child fathered by her wealthy white employer.

In a city riven by racial tension, the father's transgression is unforgivable. He has already arranged to take the baby, so it falls to Sylvia, the midwife's teenage apprentice, to tell Meda that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062126962
• ISBN13: 9780062126962
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"