![]() ![]() He's introduced as the son of a blacksmith, heir to his "father's iron facts." Every single thing in Cora's life works like that. And yet, the character most closely associated with "facts" in the book is her primary antagonist, Ridgeway, the calm, ruthless slave catcher. ![]() While Cora is on the run (an escape that began under a new moon, though many escape by the light of the full moon), she falls in love with farmer's almanacs because "the tables and facts couldn't be shaped into what they were not"-a welcome image of security for a woman who's granted none. On the plantation, Cora is a farmer in her own right, the sole inheritor of her mother's garden, a tiny patch of ground she protects with her life. Take one image Whitehead works throughout the narrative: the moon. But pain sprouts from every pleasure in this book. ![]()
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