Title: A shout in the ruins
Description: A novel that spans one hundred years and is set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond explores the brutal legacy of violence and exploitation in American society as it examines the fates of the inhabitants of Beauvais Plantation and their descendants.
Subjects: Race relations, Plantations, Plantation owners, History, Slavery, Fiction, Fiction, historical, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, war & military, Virginia, fiction, Slaves, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general
Places: United States, Virginia
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865