- Teenage girls, Racially mixed people, Women slaves, Plantation life
A haunting, beautifully written novel set in early-nineteenth-century Louisiana: the tale of a slave girl's journey--emotional and physical--from captivity to freedom.Susan Straight has been called "a writer of exceptional gifts and grace" (Joyce Carol Oates).
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and overwhelming.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Susan Straight
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 354
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Pantheon Books, Pantheon
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781400095599
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