![]() ![]() ![]() There's Essie, for instance, the female slave Isaiah can't impregnate and who eventually is raped by Paul. Samuel’s and Isaiah's sexuality throws a wrench in Paul's cruelty, and the consequences of their love send ripples through the novel's vast cast of vividly rendered characters. The plantation's owner is Paul, a White man who forces his slaves into having sex so the women will produce new slaves. Isaiah is haunted by fragmented memories of the mother he was stripped from as a child Samuel became Isaiah's first friend on the plantation when he was brought there in chains, and their relationship has bloomed into a love affair that sets them apart from the other slaves and disrupts the plantation's functioning. Samuel and Isaiah are two young men enslaved on a Mississippi plantation known as Empty. In his debut novel, Jones-perhaps better known to readers as the blogger Son of Baldwin-delivers an ambitious tale of love and beauty in the face of brutality. An epic attempt to imagine a history of Black queerness from the African past to the antebellum American South. ![]()
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