The horror of slavery colors everyone involved in this tale of early America. Jacob receives young Florens as partial payment for a bad debt. But that's just the beginning of this disturbing story of a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and of a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment. An American Library Association Notable Book, and winner of a Listen Up award from Publishers Weekly. By the Nobel laureate. "[She] holds the listener completely in thrall through her narrative, her characters, her language, and her own fine reading."—Publishers Weekly