Book guide
Let Us Descend
A woman forced into bondage walks through darkness toward reclamation.
Genre and trope pairingsHistoricalResistanceLiteraryTrauma recoveryLiteraryComing of ageLiteraryIntergenerational trauma
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About Let Us Descend
Annis, an enslaved young woman in the Carolinas, is sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her. Her journey through New Orleans and into a Louisiana sugar plantation is sustained by memories of her mother, ancestral stories, and a spirit-haunted world of myth and history.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Extreme
- Pacing
- Balanced
Content warnings
- slavery
- racism
- rape
- sexual assault
- abuse
- confinement
- violence
- death
- grief
- torture
- starvation
