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Reviewed by Christian Sia for Readers' Favorite
Set in 1843, Louisiana, Fox Creek by M. E. Torrey is a captivating historical novel that examines the painful experience of slavery and explores the emotions and lives of the characters with forensic clarity. Six-year-old Monette, the beloved daughter of a French Creole sugar planter, is torn from her privileged life and sold into slavery in New Orleans along with Cyrus, a boy who is taken away from his mother. Sent to Fox Creek Plantation, Monette hides her pain behind a veneer of normalcy, forging bonds with Kate, the planter’s daughter, and catching the eye of Breck, the planter’s son. As years pass, the harsh truths of racial inequality and brutality threaten to crush her spirit. Can she find someone to protect her?
This is one of the novels that I would gladly place on the same shelf with Roots by Alex Haley and The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. M. E. Torrey delivers a historical narrative that is fraught with pathos and characters that are emotionally grounded and psychologically compelling, and whose physical struggles are equally affecting. Fox Creek is a book you read with a tissue to wipe away the tears. Yet you can’t stop reading because the inhumanity is deeply explored, and the author’s take on the inequality of men and women is finely drawn. Apart from the excellent prose and the expert storytelling, the setting and the author’s ability to depict what it felt like for slaves working on the plantations interested me.
