![]() ![]() By 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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