Book guide
The Long Song
A formerly enslaved Jamaican woman tells slavery’s final years with wit, pain, and defiant life.
GenresHistoricalLiterary
Genre and trope pairingsHistoricalWar storyHistoricalResistanceHistoricalClass divideLiteraryTrauma recoveryLiterarySocial commentary
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About The Long Song
Set on a Jamaican sugar plantation during the last years of slavery and the early years of freedom, the novel is narrated by July. Through her story, Andrea Levy explores survival, power, and the upheaval surrounding emancipation.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Balanced
Content warnings
- slavery
- sexual violence
- rape
- violence
- racism
