Is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It is the story of lilith, born into slavery on a jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, th...Is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It is the story of lilith, born into slavery on a jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they and she will come to both revere and fear.