Let Us Descend

* AN OPRAH''S BOOK CLUB PICK *¿A spectacular achievement¿ ANTHONY DOERR¿Extravagantly beautiful¿ DAILY MAIL¿One of the greatest writers of all time¿ JACQUELINE WOODSON¿Extraordinary¿ GUARDIAN¿The best book I¿ve read in years¿ LOUISE KENNEDY-----------------------The first weapon I ever held was my mother''s hand.On a slave plantation in the Carolinas, Annis has survived in the light of her mother¿s resilience, comforted by stories of her African warrior grandmother. Everything she knows, she learned from her mother ¿ how to fight, how to be strong, how to grow up in a world shrouded in darkness.When she is sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, Annis must venture onward through the rich but unforgiving landscapes of the American South alone: from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans, and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Searching for relief in