Corregidora

Selected, edited, and first published by Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones's powerful debut novel tells the story of Ursa, a Kentucky blues singer who, in the wake of a tragic loss, confronts her maternal history and the legacy of Corregidora, the Portuguese slave master who fathered both her mother and grandmother. Consumed and haunted by her hatred of the man who irrevocably shaped the lives of her family, Ursa must come to terms with a past that is never too distant from the present. Situated at the intersection of womanhood, sexuality, and the psychological residue of slavery, this literary classic is reborn for twenty-first-century readers.