Beasts SS_Gift_Guide Black men who had liberated

Black men who had liberated themselves from bondage on South Carolina's Sea Island cotton plantations after the Battle of Port Royal in November 1861 enlisted in the Second South Carolina Volunteers and risked their lives in the effort

they know they want to spend it together…even if that means their goodbye will be heartbreaking

The daughter of an African mother she never knew and a white sailor

Even after the "outfitter murders

Beasts SS_Gift_Guide Black men who had liberatedA young woman tumbles into a nightmare of decadent desire and corrupted innocence in a superb novella of suspense from National Book Awardwinner Joyce Carol Oates. Art and arson, the poetry of D. H. Lawrence and pulp pornography, hero worship and sexual debasement, totems and taboos mix and mutate into a startling, suspenseful tale of how a sunny New England college campus descends into a lurid nightmare. "A small gem. Oates does not disappoint, nor