A review by janetll
The Healing by Jonathan Odell

4.0

I could have lived without the mystical/magical elements, but it's certainly possible the characters involved would have believed them. Aside from that I found this book to be a wonderful description of life on a plantation right before emancipation (with all its terribleness), and it increased my understanding of the situation of freed slaves as well as the white people who had their own burden under slavery. I greatly admire the author's passion for this subject.