This is novel is based on the author’s ancestors (or whatever is the best term for past relatives not that deep in the past ultimately). The story primarily follow Vyry, a mixed race woman born into slavery as the product of her white owner/father raping her mother. The story begins in Georgia before the Civil War, carries through the war, following the connections between the Black slaves and the white owners, and then spends about half or more of the rest of the novel in […]