Let us descend : a novel

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Genre:: Historical fiction
Novels
Subjects:: Enslaved women--Fiction
Mothers and daughters--Fiction
Multiracial people--Fiction
Slavery--United States--Fiction

Summary:: "Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is 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. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation." -- provided by publisher.
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 305 pages ; 22 cm
General Note:: "Oprah's book club 2023"--jacket.