Title: Family
First published: 1991
Description: In this wise, beguiling, beautiful novel set in the era of the Civil War, an award-winning playwright and author paints a haunting portrait of a woman named Always, born a slave, and four generations of her African-American family. A slave mother, distraught that her children, sired by her master, might be sold away from her, attempts to poison them all.
Subjects: African American women, Fiction, History, Afro-American setting, Afro-American author, Fiction, general, Slaves, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, family life, Fiction, historical, general, African americans, fiction, Slavery
LC classification: PS3553.O5874 F36 1991