The Known World -- Edward P. Jones, Paperback Logan Clarke Author: Kelly McWilliams

Author: Kelly McWilliams

and her white husband knows nothing of her past

ISBN: 9781534426818

Max Anders' classic book

The Known World -- Edward P. Jones, Paperback Logan Clarke Author: Kelly McWilliamsFrom National Book Award nominated author Edward P. Jones comes a debut novel of stunning emotional depth and unequaled literary power Henry Townsend, a farmer, boot maker, and former slave, through the surprising twists and unforeseen turns of life in antebellum Virginia, becomes proprietor of his own plantation as well his own slaves. When he dies, his widow Caldonia succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart at their plantation: