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Night Wherever We Go Tracey Rose Peyton

Night Wherever We Go By Tracey Rose Peyton

Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton


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'A hugely impressive debut' SARAH WATERS

'A powerful and inspired achievement. This one is not to be missed' NATHAN HARRIS

'Extraordinary... I'm not sure I've recovered from the experience of reading it, or ever will, or ever should' ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN

'A haunting, powerful and utterly unforgettable read' RACHEL HENG

Night Wherever We Go Summary

Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton

'A hugely impressive debut' SARAH WATERS

'A powerful and inspired achievement. This one is not to be missed' NATHAN HARRIS

'Extraordinary... I'm not sure I've recovered from the experience of reading it, or ever will, or ever should' ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN

'A haunting, powerful and utterly unforgettable read' RACHEL HENG

An intimate look at the domestic lives of enslaved women, NIGHT WHEREVER WE GO is an evocative meditation on resistance and autonomy, on love and transcendence and the bonds of female friendship in the darkest of circumstances.

On a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleeping quarters and gather in the woods under the cover of night. The Lucys-as they call the plantation owners, after Lucifer himself-have decided to turn around the farm's bleak financial prospects by making the women bear children. They have hired a stockman to impregnate them. But the women are determined to protect themselves.

Now, each of the six faces a choice. Nan, the doctoring woman, has brought a sack of cotton root clippings that can stave off children when chewed daily. If they all take part, the Lucys may give up and send the stockman away. But a pregnancy for any of them will only encourage the Lucys further. And should their plan be discovered, the consequences will be severe.

Visceral and illuminating, Night Wherever We Go marks the arrival of a bold, lyrical and powerful new voice in fiction.

Night Wherever We Go Reviews

'A haunting evocation of the routine brutalities of slavery that is also a powerful celebration of friendship, community, resilience and rebellion. A hugely impressive debut' SARAH WATERS

'A powerful and inspired achievement... gives voice to the enslaved women of this nation's past who have, for far too long, had their voices gone unheard in the annals of history. She does them justice and then some. This one is not to be missed' NATHAN HARRIS, author of The Sweetness of Water

'ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN, author of The Souvenir Museum

'In finding a completely innovative way to write about Texas, Tracey Rose Peyton has found a wholly innovative way to write about the cost and debt of freedoms in this nation. The prose here is never wieldy, though the ideas and particularly, the explorations of longing while Black are wonderfully layered. Night Wherever We Go has the potential to change how Blacknesses, Texas and the nation are written about forever' KIESE LAYMON, author of Long Division

'A tale of epic survival, a song of collective resilience, an intimate exploration of love, friendship and sisterhood in the face of harrowing cruelty and injustice. In lyrical and precise prose, Tracey Rose Peyton evokes an indelible portrait of each woman's complicated desires, hopes and fears. And in spite of the characters' difficult lives, this is a book about joy and transcendence as much as it is about trauma and loss. The complex and varied voices of the women that inhabit Night Wherever We Go make it a haunting, powerful and utterly unforgettable read' RACHEL HENG, author of Suicide Club

About Tracey Rose Peyton

Tracey Rose is a recent graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at University of Texas-Austin where she worked with Elizabeth McCracken and Bret Anthony Johnston. Her short fiction has been published in Guernica, American Short Fiction, Prairie Schooner and elsewhere, and her short story, The Last Days of Rodney, was selected by Jesmyn Ward to appear in Best American Short Stories 2021.

Additional information

GOR012953092
9780008532840
0008532842
Night Wherever We Go by Tracey Rose Peyton
Used - Like New
Hardback
HarperCollins Publishers
20230427
304
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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