5/20/2023 0 Comments Sarny bookBy the time Sarny meets Martin, she's a young woman who views the strong, courageous slave with fresh eyes. Waller tries to force Sarny to breed, but she refuses to be intimate with a man unless she's in love and married to him, and Waller's male slaves cooperate by pretending they've mated with her. Life on the Waller plantation didn't ease up any after John's departure. She has a bit more to do before God beckons her into his eternal embrace. She's tired after a century of euphoric ups and devastating downs, but Sarny isn't ready just yet to join her friends and family in the afterlife. Sarny learned to read and write from John, a fellow slave, and now she's composing her memoirs for the enlightenment of future generations. The book begins in 1930 with Sarny now at age ninety-four, in a home for old folks outside of Dallas, Texas, reflecting on the long, rich life she couldn't have imagined would be hers back in those early days as a slave on Clel Waller's Southern plantation. If Nightjohn had all the dry makings of literary excellence but was too sparse to fulfill its potential, Sarny: A Life Remembered rectifies that by putting more meat on the story's bones.
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