Co-presented by Elliott Bay Book Company
March 22, 2010
6:30pm at Douglass-Truth Library (map)
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“Heart-wrenching, intriguing, original, and suspenseful, this novel showcases Perkins-Valdez’ ability to bring the unfortunate past to life.” -Publishers Weekly.
An ambitious startling debut novel that follows the lives of four women at a resort popular among slaveholders who bring their enslaved mistresses. Engaging, page-turning, and wholly original, Wench explores with an unflinching eye, the moral complexities of slavery.
Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s fiction and essays have appeared in The Kenyon Review, African American Review, North Carolina Literary Review, and the Richard Wright Newsletter. Born and raised in Memphis, a graduate of Harvard, and a former University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Perkins-Valdez teaches creative writing at the University of Puget Sound.
