01429cim a2200325 4500 360823144 TxAuBib 20170307120000.0 170307s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781478940579 1478940573 TxAuBib Hicks, Robert. The orphan mother [audiobk (CD)] / Robert Hicks. unabridged. New York : Hachette Audio, 2016. 10.5 hrs. ; 9 discs. Read by Adenrele Ojo. In the years following the Civil War, Mariah Reddick, former slave to Carrie McGavock, the Widow of the South, has quietly built a new life for herself as a midwife to the women of Franklin, Tennessee. When her ambitious, politically minded grown son, Theopolis, is murdered, Mariah, no stranger to loss, finds her world once more breaking apart. How could this happen? Who wanted him dead? Adult. 20170307. African American midwives Tennessee Fiction. Freedmen Tennessee Fiction. Mothers and sons Fiction. Murder Fiction. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Williamson County (Tenn) History 19th century Fiction. Tennessee Politics and government 1865-1950 Fiction. Ojo, Adenrele.