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Nov 28, 2012uncommonreader rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This is a very interesting and thought-provoking novel set in 1828 in the American south at the time of a slave rebellion. The narrator is a woman slave owner who is herself enslaved by her marriage and patriarchial society. Nevertheless, she is an unsmpathetic character who is totally self-centred and self-serving, who never once expresses any human understanding or sympathy for "her" slave.