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Thorndike, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2023.

©2023

Opis fizyczny

363 pages (large print) ; 24 cm

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Thorndike Press large print top shelf.

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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.

Temat

African American children -- Fiction.

Spirits -- Fiction.

large print books.

Large type books.

Memory -- Fiction.

Slavery -- United States -- Fiction.

Enslaved women -- Fiction.

Girls, Black -- Fiction.

Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.

Racially mixed people -- Fiction.

Gatunek

Large print books.

Temat

Enslaved persons -- Fiction.

African American families -- Fiction.

Slaveholders -- United States -- Fiction.

Louisiana -- Fiction.

ISBN

9798885792592 (large print) (hardcover)