Used book – Cane River, Lalita Tademy, Marie-Claude Elsen

"On the morning of her ninth birthday, the day after Madame slapped her, Suzette peed on the rose bushes. The plantation bell had not yet rung when she woke up with a start, listened intently to Mam'zelle's carefree breathing as she slept above her in the four-poster bed, watched for any movements elsewhere in the sleeping house, and, without a sound, got up from her straw mattress laid directly on the floor. "A first act of rebellion for this young slave who grew up in the shadow of the great house, torn between her family, over in the slave quarters, and her friendship with the master's daughter. However, the road to emancipation is still long... From mother to daughter, four generations of Black women will use the only weapons they have: patience, endurance, cunning, and seduction to survive the darkest hours of American history and raise their children in the promise and hope of freedom.