The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilso..., Nancy Peacock
The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilso..., Nancy Peacock
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The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson
A Novel

Author: Nancy Peacock

Narrator: JD Jackson

Unabridged: 12 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/17/2017


Synopsis

I have been to hangings before, but never my own.

Sitting in a jail cell on the eve of his hanging, April 1, 1875, freedman Persimmon "Persy" Wilson wants nothing more than to leave some record of the truth—his truth. He may be guilty, but not of what he stands accused: the kidnapping and rape of his former master's wife.

In 1860, Persy had been sold to Sweetmore, a Louisiana sugar plantation, alongside a striking, light-skinned house slave named Chloe. Their deep and instant connection fueled a love affair and inspired plans to escape their owner, Master Wilson, who claimed Chloe as his concubine. But on the eve of the Union Army's attack on New Orleans, Wilson shot Persy, leaving him for dead, and fled with Chloe and his other slaves to Texas. So began Persy's journey across the frontier, determined to reunite with his lost love. Along the way, he would be captured by the Comanche, his only chance of survival to prove himself fierce and unbreakable enough to become a warrior. His odyssey of warfare, heartbreak, unlikely friendships, and newfound family would change the very core of his identity and teach him the meaning and the price of freedom.

About Nancy Peacock

Nancy Peacock is the author of the novels Life Without Water and Home Across the Road, as well as the memoir, A Broom of One's Own: Words on Writing, Housecleaning, and Life. She currently teaches writing classes and workshops in and around Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she lives with her husband Ben.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephanie on November 26, 2019

"I have been to hangings before, but never my own." Persimmom "Percy" Wilson sits in his jail cell as he awaits his hanging in Drunken Bride, Texas. A former slave, Percy is being punished for killing the man that used to own him and for raping this man's wife. Having being taught to read and write,......more

Goodreads review by Wicca on July 24, 2013

True confession 1 - I have known Nancy Peacock since 7th grade, admire her greatly and am very fond of her. True confession 2 - I have read all of Nancy's books. Life Without Water I enjoyed very much. Home Across The Road I didn't. (I have told Nancy this, so she won't be upset to read it here) The......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on September 02, 2013

It is 10 years after the freedom war. The soldiers of the Union Army have left the South to wrestle with itself, and all the slaves they freed, to hunt the unconquered peoples of the West. And in a tiny town called Drunken Bride, Texas, a black man who is about to hang is trying to explain to us why......more

Goodreads review by Lyn on January 31, 2014

It's a testament to a book that when you're told the end in the beginning that every page pulls you forward to know just why and how the ending occurred. It's another compliment when a character survives hardship after hardship and you don't put the book down from exhaustion. Persimmon Wilson deals......more

Goodreads review by Moonkiszt on September 29, 2021

I picked this book up because upon a quick look at the cover decided this was about a pioneer woman named Persimmon Wilson. Guess what. . .it's not! That I'd be tripping along a pioneer trail heading west. Ok that is a little closer as there is travel, of a western sort. With as wrong as I was in the......more