01450nam a22001697a 4500008004100000020001800041040000800059041000800067100003200075245005000107260007300157300002500230520093900255650003201194650002601226650002801252251111b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780008532888  cTBS  aeng  aPeyton, Tracey Roseeauthor  aNight wherever we go :c/ Tracey Rose Peyton.  aNew York, NY : bEcco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,c2023.  a295 pages ; c22 cm.  aOn 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 willbe severe. Visceral and arresting, Night Wherever We Go illuminates each woman's individual trials and desires while painting a subversive portrait of collective defiance. 0aPlantationszTexasvFiction 0aSlaveholdersvFiction 0aEnslaved womenvFiction