![]() ![]() The tale finds its particular focus in the adult Lizzie’s being taken on several summer vacations by her master-lover to a bucolic Ohio resort, Tawawa House, that uniquely welcomes Southern slave owners and their black slave-mistresses among its Northern guests. ![]() Published last year and now out in paperback, “Wench” tells the story of a Tennessee slave girl, Lizzie, who at age 13 becomes the concubine of her master, Nathan Drayle, about two decades before the Civil War. ![]() How this came to be - that is, the nature of the sexual relationship between blacks and whites in slavery-era America - is examined in layers of beautiful complexity in Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s debut novel, “Wench.” It’s a fact that the majority of black Americans, about 60 percent, have some European blood - a white ancestor somewhere in their past. Amistad, 290 pages.Īuthor appearance: Dolen Perkins-Valdez will speak at Barnes & Noble Buckhead, 2900 Peachtree Road, Atlanta, at 7 p.m. ![]()
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