Family

In this wise, beguiling, beautiful novel set in the era of the Civil War, an award-winning playwright and author paints a haunting portrait of a woman named Always, born a slave, and four generations of her African-American family. A slave mother, distraught that her children, sired by her master, might be sold away from her, attempts to poison them all.

First sentence: HISTORY. LIVED, NOT WRITTEN, is such a thing not to understand always, but to marvel over.

Year

1991

Language

English

Publisher

Anchor

Editions

5

Pages

240

ISBN

9780385411721

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