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Victor LaValle, Lone Women

Author Victor LaValle
Teddy Wolff
Author Victor LaValle

Victor LaValle’s new novel, Lone Women, is set in 1915 and tells the story of Adelaide Henry. The daughter of a farming family, Adelaide is leaving her home in California to start life alone as a homesteader in Montana. She’s one of just two Black people in her new town, and she brings with her a large, heavy trunk that contains her secrets. Author Victor LaValle is a singular writer—he manages to write horror in a beautiful literary style. If you’ve never read his work, do yourself a favor and pick up Lone Women,or any of his other eight books.

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