The Book of Night Women
- ISBN-10
- 1594488576
- ISBN-13
- 9781594488573
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 417
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Marlon James
Description
Lilith was 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 the
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