Child Bride

In the segregated South of the mid-1900s, fourteen-year-old Nell bears witness to a world that embraces the oppression of women. Married off when she turns sixteen, she journeys from the South to the city of Boston, where she must quickly learn first how to be a wife to a controlling and emotionally abusive husband, and then a mother.

After giving birth to three children, Nell's body begins to fail her. Her husband, concerned for her health, pulls away from her physically. But this void of intimacy drives Nell into the arms of another man, Charles-- an encounter that leads to another pregnancy, and another unanticipated adventure for Nell.


Author: Jennifer Smith Turner
Publisher: Sparkpress
Published: 04/14/2020
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781684630387
ISBN10: 168463038X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | African American & Black | Women
- Fiction | African American & Black | Historical
- Fiction | Coming of Age