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Lilith is convinced that her green eyes,that her father was a white man, make her not only special but better than other slaves.Affirmation that the “arrow from ugly to pretty was from black to white,” she has aspirations far beyond what the Night Women can offer. Vain and foolish, impetuous and ungrateful, Lilith refuses to ally herself with her would-be sisters, and so ends up learning painful lessons....

Though Night Womaen hasmmm sadistic plantation owners and vicious overseers, “house Negroes” and field slaves, James avoids the clichéd melodrama such characters often inspire. He never draws rigid lines between good and evil, and he never takes sides.

At the center of “The Book of Night Women” is a black-skinned, green-eyed slave woman, barely out of childhood, who struggles to transcend the violence....

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