Ours by Phillip B. Williams
Now, this, that is the one. This epic, practically 600-paged, sweeping multi-generational tome begins with Saint, an enigma by all meanings of the phrase, whose righteous fury and conjuring means destroy plantations throughout Arkansas within the 1830s. She brings the individuals newly freed by the destruction to a haven of her personal making that she names Ours. It’s in Ours that Saint each shields — and possibly even entombs — her flock, defending them from outsiders along with her conjuring. But then her thoughts begins to slide, and her reminiscences betray her. The fault strains in her creation are like beacons to different exterior conjurors, and Ours turns into susceptible. The narrative, bolstered by effervescent prose, Black spirituality, mythology, and surrealism, sweeps over 4 a long time, displaying what love can do to you.
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