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Property
Property | Valerie Martin
5 posts | 17 read | 14 to read
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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Staci
Staci
Property | Valerie Martin
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It was good. I liked Manon but I kind of enjoyed Sarah more, the slave given to Manon. But the ending was abrupt, I'm assuming that is the point of the book.

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NikkiCureton
NikkiCureton
Property | Valerie Martin
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Beautifully written. Tough subject matter, but important and necessary reading.

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jenniferheidi
jenniferheidi
Property | Valerie Martin
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Mehso-so

Book 6 of my #12booksofsummer is a conundrum. Beautifully, skilfully written but a narrator - a plantation owner‘s wife - who, whilst being trapped herself, doesn‘t recognise her own prejudices and actions to limit the freedom of others. I found this quite problematic and didn‘t really enjoy the novel as a result.

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Insightsintobooks
Insightsintobooks
Property | Valerie Martin
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I also found this on sale if anyone is interested.

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HannaPolkadots
HannaPolkadots
Property | Valerie Martin
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Panpan

I struggled with enjoying this story. It might be a bit Alice Munro-y; you get to enter and observe a life for å while, and then leave without much having been resolved. But Munro does that beautifully, this just seemed pointless. I guess you can discuss the issues of feminism, sexism and who's really property, but there are books that deal better with similar issues. Like that book about the girl given a slave for her birthday by Sue Monk Kidd.

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