Let us descend
a novel
Let us descend
a novel
large type - 2023
"Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, 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"--
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| Barcode | Status | Material Type | CallNumber |
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| 37413321965313 | 可用 | Fiction Large Print | LGE-TYPE WARD |
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| 格式: | 圖書 |
| 語言: | English |
| 出版: |
[Waterville, Maine] :
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company,
2023.
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| 版: | Large print edition. |
| 叢編: | Thorndike Press large print top shelf.
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MARC
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