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Two years after the end of the Civil War, the people of Franklin, Tennessee are learning to live with the new status quo. Black people are legally free and establishing themselves economically and politically in the town. Mariah Reddick, as a highly skilled midwife, is doing well for herself. But there are some (quite a few, actually) white men and women who very much do not like the new status quo and are willing to use violence to keep the newly freed enslaved people “in their place.” In The Orphan Mother, by Robert Hicks, Mariah and her son get caught in the chaos of an election season. When her son is killed, Mariah seeks justice. She’s not alone, because a former sniper is willing to go outside the law to punish the men who killed Mariah’s son...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley for review consideration.