Ours

Beschreibung

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, People, Los Angeles Times, NPR, and more An inventive ode to self-determination and also a surrealistic vision of Black life as forged within the crucible of American history . . . [written in] lush, ornamental prose. The New Yorker Fans of The Underground Railroad, The Water Dancer,and Let Us Descend will devour this lyrical and surreal saga. Oprah DailyFrom a writer of singular voice and vision, a mesmerizing epic that reimagines the past to explore the true nature of freedomIn this ingenious, sweeping novel, Phillip B. Williams introduces us to an enigmatic woman named Saint, a fearsome conjurer who, in the 1830s, annihilates plantations all over Arkansas to rescue the people enslaved there. She brings those she has freed to a haven of her own creation: a town just north of St. Louis, magically concealed from outsiders, named Ours.It is in this miraculous place that Saint s grand experiment a truly secluded community where her...