8 /10 1 Votes
3.7/5 Barnes & Noble Originally published 4 January 2010 | 3.7/5 Goodreads 4.7/5 Audiobooks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominations NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction Similar Balm: A Novel, The Midwife's Confession, Cane River, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, The Kitchen House | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wench: A Novel is the 2010 debut novel of author Dolen Perkins-Valdez.
Contents
Perkins-Valdez was inspired to write the novel after reading an autobiography of W.E.B. Dubois. The book mentioned in passing that the land for Wilberforce University had once been used for a privately owned resort called Tawawa House, where white slave owners would bring the black slaves they kept as mistresses.
Plot
Lizzie, a young black slave woman in the 1850s is taken during the summer to Tawawa House in Ohio where she and her master are able to cohabitate as if they are partners.
Reception
Wench earned positive reviews and was a New York Times Bestseller.
References
Wench: A Novel Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA