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Many of your reviews have emphasized the brutality and deprivation of the characters’ lives, and rightly so, but what is even more extraordinary about The Book of Night Women, to me at least, is the tormented romance that drives the last third of the story. Two characters fall into a twisted and passionate affair that sometimes seems like love, but never really can be. The relationship is at le...
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The Book of Night Women
  4.20 avg rating — 1,066 ratings
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published
2009
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12 editions
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John Crow's Devil
  3.66 avg rating — 85 ratings
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published
2005
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5 editions
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Making the Trees Shiver: An Anthology of the First Six Years of the Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival
by Chris Abani, Amiri Baraka, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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2011
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“Those who think he had lucky breaks are not only unaware of the real story but also fall prey to that sin of the mediocre: bitchiness about others’ success”
― Marlon James
― Marlon James
“She not black, she mulatto. Mulatto, mulatto, mulatto. Maybe she be family to both and to hurt white man just as bad as hurting black man…..Maybe if she start to think that she not black or white, then she won’t have to care about neither man’s affairs. Maybe if she don’t care what other people think she be and start think about what she think she be, maybe she can rise over backra and nigger business, since neither ever mean her any good. Since the blood that run through her both black and white, maybe she be her own thing. But what thing she be?”
― Marlon James, The Book of Night Women
― Marlon James, The Book of Night Women
“Homer was the mistress’ personal slave and many of the evil things that happen to her was because the mistress was so miserable that she make it her mission to make everybody round her miserable as well.”
― Marlon James, The Book of Night Women
― Marlon James, The Book of Night Women
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| Literary Fiction ...: "The Book of Night Women" National Book Critics Circle Finalist | 1 | 20 | Jan 23, 2010 07:54pm | |
| Literary Fiction ...: Discussion: The Book of Night Women | 93 | 61 | Jan 24, 2010 08:55am | |
| Chicks On Lit: October Voting is OPEN | 16 | 88 | Aug 11, 2010 01:01pm | |
| Graywolf Press: Submit your suggestions for October's book club! | 8 | 23 | Sep 27, 2010 06:17am | |
| A 2012 Challenge:...: Kristen's list | 13 | 50 | Oct 30, 2011 08:50am | |
| Chicks On Lit: Elizabeth's Reviews | 225 | 252 | Jan 23, 2012 07:51am | |
| Around the World ...: Jamaica | 5 | 56 | May 07, 2012 07:44pm |
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