Ours

"When an award-winning poet writes an epic saga, you want to sit up and take notice, and while Ours is lengthy and beautifully complex, it is also a page-turner. Opening on a contemporary death of a teenager and his shocking resurrection, the book then travels back to the 1830s and a conjure woman named Saint who is freeing enslaved people from their bonds and taking revenge on their masters. She founds a town for these freed people and shields it from the world – but she can’t protect its residents from their own pasts and present hurts."