**Uncover a Century of Strength: *Things Past Telling* by Sheila Williams** Journey through a century of history with Sheila Williams’ *Things Past Telling*, a captivating novel inspired by a real-life 19th-century woman and the author’s own family history. *Things Past Telling* is a compelling and emotional read. At the heart of this sweeping saga is Maryam Prescilla Grace, a woman torn from her West African homeland and thrust into the brutal reality of the transatlantic slave trade. Enslaved and renamed, she endures hardship, masters midwifery, and becomes a pivotal figure in her community. Maryam’s journey takes her across continents, forcing her to navigate a world of oppression and limited options. This historically rich novel explores themes of resilience, identity, and the enduring power of family. With vivid prose, Williams paints a portrait of a woman whose spirit cannot be broken, even in the face of unimaginable adversity. *Things Past Telling* is more than a historical account; it’s an intimate glimpse into the life of a remarkable woman who defied the odds. A must-read for fans of historical fiction, family sagas, and stories of the strength and resilience of women.
Things Past Telling: A Novel
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This is a truly character-driven novel that explores how people define themselves, the creation of family and home, and the importance of memory and language. . . . Fans of historical epics wont be able to put this book down.Historical Novel Society
Emotionally satisfying. . . . A remarkable character portrait.Publishers Weekly
The author of The Secret Women tells the story of a brave and enduring woman as indomitable as Ernest Gaines legendary Miss Jane Pittman, in a breathtaking novel that combines the epic romance and adventure of Outlander, the sweeping drama of Roots, and the haunting historical power of Barracoon.
Things Past Telling is a remarkable historical epic that charts one unforgettable womans journey across an ocean of years as vast as the Atlantic that will forever separate her from her homeland.
Born in West Africa in the mid-eighteenth century, Maryam Prescilla Gracea.k.a Momma Grace will live a long, wondrous life marked by hardship, oppression, opportunity, and love. Though she will be gifted various names, her birth name is known to her alone. Over the course of 100-plus years, she survives capture, enslavement by several property owners, the Atlantic crossing when she is only eleven years of age, and a brief stint as a pirates ward, acting as both a spy and a translator.
Maryam learns midwifery from a Caribbean-born wise woman, whose craft combines curated techniques and medicines from African, Indigenous, and European women. Those midwifery skills allow her to sometimes transcend the racial and class barriers of her enslavement, as she walks the razors edge trying to balance the lives and health of her own people with the cruel economic mandates of the slave holders, who view infants born in bondage not as flesh-and-blood children but as investment property.
Throughout her triumphant and tumultuous life Maryam gains and loses her homeland, her family, her culture, her husband, her lovers, and her children. Yet as the decades pass, this tenacious woman never loses her sense of self.
Inspired by a 112-year-old woman the author discovered in an 1870 U.S. Federal census report for Ohio, loosely based on the authors real-life female ancestors, spanning more than a hundred years, from the mid-eighteen-century to the end of Americas Civil War, and spanning across the globe, from what is now southern Nigeria to the islands of the Caribbean to North America and the land bordering the Ohio River, Things Past Telling is a breathtaking story of a past that lives on in all of us, and a life that encompasses the bestand worstof our humanity.
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