| Edition |
First Scribner hardcover edition. |
| Description |
305 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
"Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation." -- provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Enslaved women -- Fiction.
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Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
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Racially mixed people -- Fiction.
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Slavery -- United States -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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Novels.
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| ISBN |
9781982104498 (hardcover) |
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198210449X (hardcover) |
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