Annotation
"Set in the surreal heat of the antebellum South during a slave rebellion, Property takes the form of a dramatic monologue, bringing to the page a voice rarely heard in American fiction: the voice of a woman slaveholder. Manon Gaudet is pretty and petulant, self-absorbed and bored. She has come to a sugar plantation north of New Orleans as a bride, bringing with her a prized piece of property, the young slave Sarah, only to see Sarah become her husband's mistress and bear his child. As the whispers of a slave rebellion grow louder and more threatening, Manon speaks to us of her past and her present, her longings and dreams - an uncensored, pitch-perfect voice from the heart of moral darkness."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Awards
2003 Orange Prize for Fiction
2003 New York Times Notable Books of the Year
Characters
| Name | Gaudet, Manon |
| Gender | Female |
| Traits | Married |
| Childless | |
| Name | Sarah |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Slave |
| Traits | African American |
| Mother | |
| Mistress | |
| Genre | Domestic Fiction Historical Southern fiction |
| Topics | Southern life Plantation life Troubled marriages Infidelity Love triangles Mistresses Illegitimate children Racism Slaves Slavery Rebellion |
| Setting | Louisiana Sugar plantation Plantation |