Slave Moth: A Narrative in Verse

by Thylias Moss

Book Overview

Named by Black Issues as the best poetry book of 2004, this is the astonishing story of a slave girl in the antebellum South.

This critically acclaimed verse-novel follows the unforgettable Varl, a slave on a plantation in Tennessee, on her path to freedom. Wise beyond her years and wildly creative, Varl must choose between the only life she's knownher Mamalee, her friends (especially her beloved Dob), the farmland she's explored...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892553189
• ISBN13: 9780892553181
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Persea Books
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.3"