Property Cover:Paperback lesser-known African American historical figures

lesser-known African American historical figures will be introduced to new generations of readers

sixteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz never thought much about her biracial roots

Cicely Tyson has not only succeeded as an actor

Not even their infuriating stepsiblings

and music mornings they used to share

Property Cover:Paperback lesser-known African American historical figuresWINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE Set in 1828 on a Louisiana sugar plantation, this novel from the bestselling author of Mary Reilly presents a fresh, unsentimental look at what slave owning does to (and for) one's interior life. The writingso prised and clean limbedis a marvel" (Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize winning author of Beloved). Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self absorbed, seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband.