The Resource Wench : a novel, Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Wench : a novel, Dolen Perkins-Valdez
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The item Wench : a novel, Dolen Perkins-Valdez represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Coweta Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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- Summary
- Tawawa House in many respects is like any other American resort before the Civil War. Situated in Ohio, this idyllic retreat is particularly nice in the summer when the Southern humidity is too much to bear. The main building, with its luxurious finishes, is loftier than the white cottages that flank it, but then again, the smaller structures are better positioned to catch any breeze that may come off the pond. And they provide more privacy, which best suits the needs of the Southern white men who vacation there every summer with their black, enslaved mistresses. It's their open secret. Lizzie, Reenie, and Sweet are regulars at Tawawa House. They have become friends over the years as they reunite and share developments in their own lives and on their respective plantations. They don't bother too much with questions of freedom, though the resort is situated in free territory--but when truth-telling Mawu comes to the resort and starts talking of running away, things change.--From publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Wench : a novel
- Title
- Wench
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Dolen Perkins-Valdez
- Subject
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- trueFreedom seekers
- trueEnslaved women
- trueEscapes
- Fugitive slaves
- Fugitive slaves -- Fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- trueMistresses
- Ohio -- History -- 1787-1865 -- Fiction
- trueOhio -- History -- 19th century
- trueResorts
- Resorts -- Ohio -- 19th century -- Fiction
- trueSexually abused women
- trueSlavery
- Women slaves
- Women slaves -- Ohio -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- trueAfrican American women -- Friendship
- trueEmotionally abused women
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Tawawa House in many respects is like any other American resort before the Civil War. Situated in Ohio, this idyllic retreat is particularly nice in the summer when the Southern humidity is too much to bear. The main building, with its luxurious finishes, is loftier than the white cottages that flank it, but then again, the smaller structures are better positioned to catch any breeze that may come off the pond. And they provide more privacy, which best suits the needs of the Southern white men who vacation there every summer with their black, enslaved mistresses. It's their open secret. Lizzie, Reenie, and Sweet are regulars at Tawawa House. They have become friends over the years as they reunite and share developments in their own lives and on their respective plantations. They don't bother too much with questions of freedom, though the resort is situated in free territory--but when truth-telling Mawu comes to the resort and starts talking of running away, things change.--From publisher description
- Award
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- BCALA Literary Award for First Novelist, 2011.
- Library Journal Best Books, 2010.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 335032
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Perkins-Valdez, Dolen
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3616.E7457
- LC item number
- W46 2010
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Fugitive slaves
- Resorts
- Women slaves
- Ohio
- Label
- Wench : a novel, Dolen Perkins-Valdez
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 293 p.
- Isbn
- 9780061706547
- System control number
- (OCoLC)419859746
- Label
- Wench : a novel, Dolen Perkins-Valdez
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 293 p.
- Isbn
- 9780061706547
- System control number
- (OCoLC)419859746
Subject
- trueFreedom seekers
- trueEnslaved women
- trueEscapes
- Fugitive slaves
- Fugitive slaves -- Fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- trueMistresses
- Ohio -- History -- 1787-1865 -- Fiction
- trueOhio -- History -- 19th century
- trueResorts
- Resorts -- Ohio -- 19th century -- Fiction
- trueSexually abused women
- trueSlavery
- Women slaves
- Women slaves -- Ohio -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- trueAfrican American women -- Friendship
- trueEmotionally abused women
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