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The New York Times best-selling writer of Wench comes back to the Civil Conflict period to explore the next chapter of record - the injury of the conflict and the finish of slavery - in this powerful report of love and healing about three people who struggle to overcome the pain of the past and explain their own future. The Civil Conflict is finished, and Madge, Sadie, and Hemp has each come to Chicago in search of a fresh life. Born with marvelous hands, Madge has the capacity to discern others' suffering, but she cannot treat her own destroyed heart. To fix herself and help those in need, she must go back to Tennessee to face the women healers who rejected her as a child. Sadie can commune with the lifeless, but until she makes calmness with her father, she, too, cannot completely engage her item. Searching for his missing family, Hemp occurs in this Northern city that shimmers with possibility. But redemption cannot be possible until he's reunited with those taken from him. Within the bitter aftermath of an awful, bloody conflict, as a divided region tries to get together once more, Madge, Sadie, and Hemp will be caught up in a anxious, unexpected fight for success in a community anxious to lay down the pain of the past to rest. Beautiful in its historical atmosphere and psychological depth, Balm is a stirring novel of love, loss, trust, and reconciliation place during one of the most critical times in American record.
