The Little Friend
Donna Tartt
A young girl with a brother murdered years ago decides to find and punish his killer.
Read Time: ~3.4 hr
Property
by Valerie Martin (2002)
About this book
Valerie Martin’s **Property** delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slavery’s venomous effects on the owner and the owned. The year is 1828, the setting a Louisiana sugar plantation where Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self-absorbed, seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband. In particular his relationship with her slave Sarah, who is both his victim and his mistress. Exploring the permutations of Manon’s own obsession with Sarah against the backdrop of an impending slave rebellion, **Property** unfolds with the speed and menace of heat lightning, casting a startling light from the past upon the assumptions we still make about the powerful and powerful.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraContemporary
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters
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