{"product_id":"the-owned","title":"The Owned","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn Irish woman and her children sold into Caribbean slavery by CromwellÕs regime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA TV series on the history of slavery. A historian working on the series finds the womanÕs story conveyed to him through the crucifying randomness of night.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs the chronicling of her life becomes progressively more compelling to him, his reason seems held ransom by the dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAgainst the background of the world history of slavery being presented, his marriage is in polite meltdown. He ignores the apparent parallels between his family life and the slave womanÕs till they accelerate to a collision point on the Island of Barbados.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eÒWe can all have irrational thoughts or behave irrationally at times. But so long as you know youÕre being irrational you are not yet insaneÓ.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis colleagueÕs advice works well in the daylight, he thought, but not when, at the fading of the light, his visitorÕs narrative again claims ownership of him.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44234688233633,"sku":"9780244158323","price":39.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/1rvn45zv-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1718421514","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/the-owned","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}