![]() ![]() Seeing all the horrible things that happen to her that could easily break down her humanity, kill her spirit and drown her, and though at times she does lose her voice, especially when trying to come to terms with her evolving relationship with Robert Quin, she never loses her spiritedness, she never loses her ability for empathy and her ability to love. She is spirited and ‘uppity’ as a child, talking back and having opinions at a time where niggers were not allowed to have opinions or think or read and worse still, write. And yet throughout the book, throughout her light and dark moments, you maintain a soft spot for her and are invested in her fate. Her complexity endears her to the reader, one minute you are rooting for her, hoping she finds favour with her Massa, next you are shocked at how uppity and dark she can get. The Book of Night Women is a slave narrative, a story of rebellion, and a testament to the human heart in conflict with itself. She is difficult to describe and understand her but that is the beauty of human beings. ![]() Even at her birth, the slave women around her. ![]() ![]() Lilith is an enigmatic, complex character. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. ![]()
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