Night wherever we go : a novel
A gripping, radically intimate debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert rebellion against their owners ... On a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleeping quarters and gather in the woods under the cover of night. The Lucys--as they call the plantation owners, after Lucifer himself--have decided to turn around the farm's bleak financial prospects by making the women bear children. They have hired a 'stockman' to impregnate them. But the women are determined to protect themselves. Now each of the six faces a choice. Nan, the doctoring woman, has brought a sack of cotton root clippings that can stave off children when chewed daily. If they all take part, the Lucys may give up and send the stockman away. But a pregnancy for any of them will only encourage the Lucys further. And should their plan be discovered, the consequences will be severe
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Stamford | Available |
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Women slaves > Fiction. Slaveholders > Fiction. Plantations > Texas > Fiction. Birth control > United States > Fiction. Choice (Psychology) > Fiction. Texas > History > 1846-1950 > Fiction. |
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Historical fiction. |
- ISBN: 9780063249875 (hardcover)
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Physical Description
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295 pages ; 22 cm - Edition First edition.
- Publisher 2023
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |