Conjure Women: A Novel

"This extraordinary novel made me realize that I haven’t really challenged myself with complex novels since graduating from high school. Because that’s what I was feeling – challenged – in the first chapters following secretive Rue, a young Black woman enslaved on a plantation during the Civil War. Rue’s story gradually unfolds with a series of jaw-dropping plot twists that blur superstition with reality and transform the way the reader sees both Rue and her world. The result is one of the most imaginative and intricate stories I’ve read in a long time – one that almost made me wish I was back in English lit class."