A review by katherinechase
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

Extremely difficult read, but absolutely needed. The trauma of generations takes form in this book. This is a real story of slavery, of the demonic evils perpetrated and perpetuated by slave owners. But it is also about the women who, fuelled by their trauma and knowledge that they aren’t what the slave owners say they are, stand up to the violence of whites.