As the novel comes to a close, Samuel and Isaiah realize they need to take action or they will be sold by the master. Meanwhile, Jones looks back to an African village whose beauty and serenity are disrupted as the villagers are uprooted, chained, and piled onto ships the narrative’s most harrowing moments (and there are many) describe the gruesome and surreal scene on the slave ships during the passage across the ocean. But as time passes, Samuel and Isaiah’s love is tested with a challenge coming directly from the big house. They met as children, and their relationship-an open secret among the residents of Empty-has blossomed into something deeper and more meaningful. Isaiah was Samuels and Samuel was Isaiahs. At a plantation called Elizabeth, named Empty by the enslaved, two young men named Samuel and Isaiah live together in a barn and take care of the animals. Publisher Synopsis: A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence. Following a line of esteemed authors, he explores the story of enslavement in America and makes it his own. DEBUT This first novel brims with so much confidence and artful flourish that it’s hard to believe it’s Jones’s first book.
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