Night Wherever We Go A Novel

Tracey Rose Peyton, Karen Chilton

eAudio - 2023

A RECOMMENDED READ FROM: The Washington Post Atlanta Journal-Constitution CrimeReads Library JournalA gripping, radically intimate debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert rebellion against their ownersOn 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 clipp...ings 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... more