The Mandrake Farm: A Novel

By Tierra Sharpe

In a remote setting, amid the chaos of a Pandemic, ancient history repeats itself in a memoir, with a bit of fantasy and a slightly different twist in a story of love and lust within a complicated family. Deceit, pride and trickery are overcome with virtue, commitment and love as Lillian tells the story of sharing her love for the same man with her sister. Raised by an unusual parenting combination of a Muslim father and a Cherokee mother, traditions clash as she falls in love with a man of Arab decent where more than one wife is permitted.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664133006

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