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A review by kdurham2
Balm by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
3.0
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Three main characters: Sadie is a widow who can talk to dead soldiers and slaves and people and has moved from Pennsylvania to Chicago into the home of her deceased husband; Madge is a born free "colored" woman who comes from a line of women who can heal people and has moved from Tennessee to Chicago to escape her mother and aunts and start her own life; finally there is Hemp and he is a newly free "colored" man who is trying to find his wife and daughter who were sold right before he was freed and hopes to find them in Chicago.
These three characters will intersect from the beginning and will each help each other in various ways. I appreciated that these characters were in and out of each other's lives from the beginning. I also appreciated the secondary characters that surrounded them that had almost full stories of their own.
Three main characters: Sadie is a widow who can talk to dead soldiers and slaves and people and has moved from Pennsylvania to Chicago into the home of her deceased husband; Madge is a born free "colored" woman who comes from a line of women who can heal people and has moved from Tennessee to Chicago to escape her mother and aunts and start her own life; finally there is Hemp and he is a newly free "colored" man who is trying to find his wife and daughter who were sold right before he was freed and hopes to find them in Chicago.
These three characters will intersect from the beginning and will each help each other in various ways. I appreciated that these characters were in and out of each other's lives from the beginning. I also appreciated the secondary characters that surrounded them that had almost full stories of their own.