OURS: A NOVEL

**Chosen as a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Oprah's Book Club, *Elle* , *Reader's Digest* , *The Rumpus* , *Kirkus Reviews* , *The Millions* , *Lit Hub* , and more"Fans of *The Underground Railroad* , *The Water Dancer,* and *Let Us Descend* will devour this lyrical and surreal saga." -- *Oprah Daily*From a writer of singular voice and vision, a mesmerizing epic that reimagines the past to explore the true nature of freedom**In this ingenious, sweeping novel, Phillip B. Williams introduces us to an enigmatic woman named Saint, a fearsome conjuror who, in the 1830s, annihilates plantations all over Arkansas to rescue the people enslaved there. She brings those she has freed to a haven of her own creation: a town just north of St. Louis, magically concealed from outsiders, named Ours.It is in this miraculous place that Saint's grand experiment--a truly secluded community where her...