The Known World
Edward P. Jones • 2003
Devastation Rating
historical injustice literary fiction betrayal
Our Take
A freed Black man in antebellum Virginia owns slaves. Jones takes that historical fact and builds a novel of moral complexity that neither excuses nor reduces. The Known World is about the way systems of oppression corrupt everyone they touch, including — especially — those they were designed to destroy.
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