Let us descend : a novel /
Jesmyn Ward.
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- 305 pages ; 22 cm.
In the years before the Civil War, Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, struggles through the miles-long march, seeks comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother, opening herself to a world beyond this world.
9781982104498
Enslaved women--Fiction. Mothers and daughters--Fiction. Racially mixed people--Fiction. Slavery--United States--Fiction. African American families--Fiction. Life change events--Fiction.