01590cam a2200289 i 4500 1148235135 TxAuBib 20240220120000.0 230310s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023010345 9780593654828 hardcover 059365482X hardcover TxAuBib rda Williams, Phillip B.,. Ours : a novel / Phillip B. Williams. [New York] : Viking, 2024. 1 volume. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier A novel that "opens in the year 1834 as a Black woman with magical powers named Saint founds a small settlement north of St. Louis with some slaves she has liberated, making the town invisible to the outside world by placing conjure stones around its perimeter. As the inhabitants of the town discover, however, Saint has provided them safety but not necessarily freedom. As the next four decades pass, more characters enter the novel, including two young boys who come of age in the settlement, a troubled young woman from New Orleans, a person of indeterminate sexuality who has the power to heal wounds and see what people have been through, and a set of twin girls that mysteriously appear in Saint's arms one day"-- Provided by publisher. 20240220. African Americans Fiction. Magic Fiction. Novels. fast Williams, Phillip B., New York : Viking, [2024].