Corregidora is deeply affecting and endures in the heart and mind of readers. Jones captures the web of inheritances that shaped the lives of Black women in slavery and freedom, from trauma to resilience, and from flesh to spirit.

Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic Corregidora is a breathtaking novel that stands as one of the most important twentieth-century works of African American literature. It remains an indispensable point of entry into the tradition of African American writing that Gayl Jones reshaped and enriched. Review Quotes The Best American Novelist Whose Name You May Not Know-Calvin Baker, The Atlantic Corregidoras survey of trauma and overcoming has be even better and more relevant with the passage of time. Selected, edited, and first edited by Toni Morrison, it is the most brutally honest and painful revelation of what has occurred, and is occurring, in the souls of Black men and women, (James Baldwin) and a tale as American as Mount Rushmore and as murky as the Florida swamps. Consumed and haunted by her hatred of the man who irrevocably shaped her life and the lives of her family, Ursa Corregidora must come to terms with a past that is never too distant from the present. Jones masterfully 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 Brazilian slave master who fathered both her mother and grandmother.

A literary classic that remains vital to our understanding of the past, Corregidora is Gayl Joness powerful debut novel, examining womanhood, sexuality, and the psychological residue of slavery. Book Synopsis One of The New Yorkers The Best Books We Read in 2020 picks Joness great achievement is to reckon with both history and interiority, and to collapse the boundary between them.-Anna Wiener, The New Yorker The new edition of an American masterpiece, this is the harrowing story of Ursa Corregidora, a blues singer in the early 20th century forced to confront the inherited trauma of slavery. About the Book The true harrowing story of Ursa Corregidora, a blues singer in the early twentieth century forced to confront the inherited trauma of slavery.

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