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Jan 05, 2015WVMLStaffPicks rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Jones, who is a National Book Award finalist, tells an unforgettable story with characters that linger because he makes them so believable. This is a story of slavery – of both blacks and whites – in the southern United States; and of the Townsend family, in particular, who earn their freedom, build a plantation in Virginia, and begin to acquire their own slaves. It’s a world unknown to us today, but to those who suffered under the weight of slavery it was all too real and known.