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Night wherever we go : a novel
Abstract:
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. Visceral and arresting, Night Wherever We Go illuminates each woman's individual trials and desires while painting a subversive portrait of collective defiance. Unflinching in her portrayal of America's gravest injustices, while also deeply attentive to the transcendence, love, and solidarity of women whose interior lives have been underexplored, Tracey Rose Peyton creates a story of unforgettable power.
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Author:
Peyton, Tracey Rose, author.
Author, for Grouping:
Peyton, Tracey Rose,
Availability:
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Database Key:
u648211
Document ID:
SD_ILS:648211
Edition:
First edition.
Author:
Peyton, Tracey Rose, author.
First Subject value, for Searching:
Women slaves -- Fiction.
Title:
Night wherever we go : a novel
Format:
Book
ISBN:
9780063249875
Language:
English
Number Available:
1
Physical Description:
295 pages ; 22 cm
Preferred Shelf Number:
FIC PEYTON
Publication Date:
2023
Publication Date as Range:
2023
Relevance Sort Field:
2023
Reverse Author:
Tracey Rose, author. Peyton
Subject:
Women slaves -- Fiction.
Slaveholders -- Fiction.
Plantations -- Texas -- Fiction.
Birth control -- United States -- Fiction.
Plantations.
Slaveholders.
Women slaves.
Texas.
United States.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
Subsequent Subject values, for Searching:
Slaveholders -- Fiction.

Plantations -- Texas -- Fiction.

Birth control -- United States -- Fiction.

Plantations.

Slaveholders.

Women slaves.

Texas.

United States.

Historical fiction.

Fiction.
Summary:
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. Visceral and arresting, Night Wherever We Go illuminates each woman's individual trials and desires while painting a subversive portrait of collective defiance. Unflinching in her portrayal of America's gravest injustices, while also deeply attentive to the transcendence, love, and solidarity of women whose interior lives have been underexplored, Tracey Rose Peyton creates a story of unforgettable power.
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Night wherever we go : a novel
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