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An epic, spellbinding novel of rebellion, redemption,power and humanity, and of a Black community finding freedom to live an ordinary life of love and pain in America''s darkest days. A beautifully-written and ambitious epic about the complexity of freedom. Williams crafts an expansive, original world filled with characters who linger long after the final page Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half. In the mid-1800s, Saint, an enigmatic and powerful conjure woman, always flanked by a silent companion, travels the South annihilating plantations and liberating the enslaved by means of purposeful violence and powerful magic. She founds a town for those she has freed - and for them alone. They name the town Ours. Surrounded by an impenetrable magical border raised by Saint''s powers, Ours is invisible to the outer world and sits blissfully away from prying eyes and violent hands. Saint''s mission is to kill slavery - to scourge its damage from the minds of her charges and t

Ours

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    Publisher: Granta Books
    Publication Date: 1/22/2024
    ISBN13: 9781803510774, 978-1803510774
    ISBN10: 1803510773

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    An epic, spellbinding novel of rebellion, redemption,power and humanity, and of a Black community finding freedom to live an ordinary life of love and pain in America''s darkest days. A beautifully-written and ambitious epic about the complexity of freedom. Williams crafts an expansive, original world filled with characters who linger long after the final page Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half. In the mid-1800s, Saint, an enigmatic and powerful conjure woman, always flanked by a silent companion, travels the South annihilating plantations and liberating the enslaved by means of purposeful violence and powerful magic. She founds a town for those she has freed - and for them alone. They name the town Ours. Surrounded by an impenetrable magical border raised by Saint''s powers, Ours is invisible to the outer world and sits blissfully away from prying eyes and violent hands. Saint''s mission is to kill slavery - to scourge its damage from the minds of her charges and t

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