OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK *; Instant New York Times Bestseller *; Named one of the best books of 2023 by TheWashington Post, Vanity Fair, TheBoston Globe, Time, The New Yorker, and more.
';Nothing short of epic, magical, and intensely moving.' Vogue *; ';A novel of triumph.' The Washington Post *; ';Harrowing, immersive, and other-worldly.' People
From ';one of America's finest living writers' (San Francisco Chronicle) and ';heir apparent to Toni Morrison' (LitHub)comes a haunting masterpiece about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War that's destined to become a classic.
Let Us Descend describes a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. A journey that is as beautifully rendered as it is heart wrenching, the novel is ';[t]he liter
