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Night wherever we go : a novel / Tracey Rose Peyton.

by Peyton, Tracey Rose.

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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023.

Women slaves -- Fiction.

Women, Black -- Fiction.

Slaveholders -- Fiction.

Plantations -- Fiction.

Birth control -- Fiction.

Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction.

Texas -- History -- 1846-1950 -- Fiction.

9780063249875 (hc)

295 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

"A gripping, radically intimate debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert rebellion against their owners...On a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleeping quarters and gather in the woods under the cover of night. The Lucys -- as they call the plantation owners, after Lucifer himself -- have decided to turn around the farm's bleak financial prospects by making the women bear children. They have hired a 'stockman' to impregnate them. But the women are determined to protect themselves. Now each of the six faces a choice. Nan, the doctoring woman, has brought a sack of cotton root clippings that can stave off children when chewed daily. If they all take part, the Lucys may give up and send the stockman away. But a pregnancy for any of them will only encourage the Lucys further. And should their plan be discovered, the consequences will be severe."--Publisher.

Historical fiction.

Literary fiction.

Women's fiction.

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