Valerie Martin is the author of novels including <em>Tresspass</em> and <em>Mary Reilly</em>, as well as a nonfiction work about St. Francis of Assisi. In this recording from the 27th Key West Literary Seminar, Martin reads from her Orange Prize-winning historical novel, <em>Property</em>. Set on a plantation outside New Orleans in 1828, <em>Property</em> is narrated by Manon Gaudet, a slaveowner whose husband has fathered two children with one of Manon's slaves. In the passage presented here, Manon meets with her brother-in-law following an insurrection in which Manon has been shot in the shoulder, the slave has run away, and her husband has been killed
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