The Long Song
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Format: Book
Edition: First American edition.
Description: 313 pages ; 24 cm
The child of a field slave on the Amity sugar plantation in Jamaica, July lives with her mother until a recently transplanted English widow decides to move her into the great house and rename her. She remains bound to the plantation despite her "freedom." The arrival of a young English overseer dramatically changes life in the great house.
ISBN:
9780374192174 (alk. paper)