A stunning novel documenting the generational impact of slavery, Corregidora is a book that influenced a generation of Black writers, but nevertheless fell into obscurity, as did its author, Gayl Jones, who published several other significant novels, and lives a private life, after surviving a harrowing and complicated marriage.

Recently reissued by Virago Modern Classics.

New York: Bantam Books, 1976. First paperback edition. Scarce.