A definitely disturbing and shocking read and yet it felt like the story was lacking any real depth. I believe there could have been so much more explored here, for instance Fran and Lizzie's relationship. The two women lived together for years and shared the same man and yet not much about Fran is ...
I hate hate hate.....love, love, love the ending!! This book is fantastic! I read it in about 4 hours! All I can say if you're not okay with honesty & controversy then you should not read this book. What I love is it shines a light on the untold story. Almost always you hear horror stories from slav...
Heartbreaking and beautiful story of four slave women who are brought to Ohio each summer as mistresses to their male owners. I have been reading books this month by African American authors in honor of Black History Month. Reading many books on the history of African Americans has hit me hard. O...
I really enjoyed the audio Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez from Audible.com. Quincy Tyler Bernstine did such an amazing job narrating this and capturing and expressing the varying emotions of the characters. Quincy was really able to effectively present each character in a way that was relatable and g...
This book is fantastically written; however, the topic of the book is very disturbing. Def. not for light reading. When the reader truly takes in the story line, it is pretty humbling and thought provoking. At least, that is what I have found for myself.
Wench is the story of four slaves who meet at the Tawawa Resort in Xenia,OH in the summer of 1853. Their white slaveowners bring them there nominally to do chores, but as their wives are missing, the women take up perverse domestic relationships with their masters, playing slave, concubine and wife ...
Set in the mid 19th Century, Wench offers a fictionalized account of a very real and strange practice. Southern slaveowners would vacation in a particular Ohio resort and take slave women along as their vacation partners, leaving their wives at home. The story centers on several slave women, their d...
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