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Wench as Thought-Provoking as it is Heartbreaking
"Stories didn't get told unless they had to. Stories were for remembering, and none of the women wanted to tell how they had gotten there. When they told their stories, they preferred to tell the ones about that faraway place. They preferred to tell ones they had patched together in their heads, hundreds of oral remnants whispered in dark slave cabins" (55).
There's a short time every year when the slave women get to feel like human beings. They're mistresses of their own homes, cooking and cleaning only for themselves and their men, dressing up for dinner, gossipping with their girlfriends, even taking occasional dips in the pond. It's not freedom, but it's the closest thing the women have ever known. For Lizzie, Sweet and Reenie, it's a chance to experience something that's not exactly happiness, but not quite the usual misery either.
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I have this one on my Kindle and plan to read it this year. (I don't say soon because the TBR is getting huge, huge, huge!)
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your thoughts. I think I'll have to be in the mood for something more serious when I pick it up.
This sounds really great - thank you for a well written and informative review. It is a corner of history that I do not know much about so I would be very interested to learn more.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing
Hannah
I really liked this book, but you make a good point about it being a difficult read--it's not a general feel-good read for the casual reader.
ReplyDeleteGreat review!
I thought Beloved was wonderful and intensely disturbing. I hadn't heard of Wench before. Thanks for the great review.
ReplyDeleteI'm about 50 pgs into this book -- and I'm trying to do my best to keep reading -- just hasn't kept my interest. I will keep plodding along based on your review.
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