Borderlands of Slavery Shuo Wang from an Upper East Side

from an Upper East Side New York City apartment to an all-female version of Earth—and finding new ways to formally render queer genders and sexualities by articulating them to figures

“Restores us to an era rich in spectacle and bristling with insinuation and intrigue

From the award-winning author of Old Filth

at a time when generative AI can aggregate text and images in seconds

“A bleak

Borderlands of Slavery Shuo Wang from an Upper East SideIt is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the Southwest, however, two coercive labor systems, debt peonagein which a debtor negotiated a relationship of servitude, often lifelong, to a creditorand Indian captivity, not only outlived the Civil War but prompted a new struggle to define freedom and bondage in the United States. In Borderlands of Slavery,