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Riverhead Hardcover
February 2009
On Sale: February 19, 2009
432 pages
ISBN: 1594488576
EAN: 9781594488573
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The Book of Night Women is a sweeping, startling novel, a
true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It is the
story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar
plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her
birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power
that they—and she—will come to both revere and fear. The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been
plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age and
reveals the extent of her power, they see her as the key to
their plans. But when she begins to understand her own
feelings and desires and identity, Lilith starts to push at
the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave
woman in Jamaica, and risks becoming the conspiracy’s weak link. Lilith’s story overflows with high drama and heartbreak, and
life on the plantation is rife with dangerous secrets,
unspoken jealousies, inhuman violence, and very human
emotion—between slave and master, between slave and
overseer, and among the slaves themselves. Lilith finds
herself at the heart of it all. And all of it told in one of
the boldest literary voices to grace the page recently—and
the secret of that voice is one of the book’s most
intriguing mysteries.
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