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Hicks (The Widow of the South) revisits Franklin, TN, with a moving account of a woman transformed by death. Mariah Reddick, emancipated from Carnton plantation, is gaining eminence as a midwife but cannot fathom inclusion in "the world of possibility"; the town in 1867 seethes with disenfranchised Confederates, Reconstruction-funded profiteering, and hostility toward the Negro League. When her politically ambitious son Theopolis is murdered amid orchestrated ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More