When Florens joins the family of her new master Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader, she ends up part of Jacob’s household, along with his wife Rebekka, Lina their Native American servant, and the enigmatic Sorrow who was rescued from a shipwreck. Together these women face the trials of their harsh environment as Jacob attempts to carve out a place for himself in the brutally unforgiving landscape of North America in the seventeenth century.

Author – Toni Morrison

Publisher – Vintage

Page – 176