01629cam a2200373 i 4500 847321582 TxAuBib 20230615120000.0 160829s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780446581769 hbk. 0446581763 hbk. (OCoLC)939705617 TxAuBib rda Hicks, Robert, 1951- The orphan mother : a novel / by Robert Hicks. First edition. New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2016. 312 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier In the years following the Civil War, Mariah Reddick, former slave to Carrie McGavock, the Widow of the South, has quietly built a new life for herself as a midwife to the women of Franklin, Tennessee. When her ambitious, politically minded grown son, Theopolis, is murdered, Mariah, no stranger to loss, finds her world once more breaking apart. How could this happen? Who wanted him dead? 20230615. African American midwives Tennessee Fiction. Freedmen Tennessee Fiction. Mothers and sons Fiction. Murder Fiction. African Americans Tennessee Fiction. Tennessee Politics and government 1865-1950 Fiction. Williamson County (Tenn.) History 19th century Fiction. Franklin (Tenn.) Fiction. Historical fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.)