They also have, as Adelaide says, a secret, locked away for years, and that secret is responsible for her parents' gruesome deaths.Īfter the slaying of her parents, Adelaide decides to strike out on her own in Montana, a state she's been fascinated with for years. Her family runs a plum orchard in the area they're one of more than two dozen Black families who moved there to homestead. But there's more to this book than just that - it's an excellent novel that blurs genres and looks at early-20th-century America from a perspective that's been ignored for far too long.Īdelaide is 31 years old when the novel begins, living in California's Lucerne Valley in 1915. It's hard to imagine a darker start to a novel, and Lone Women is indeed infused with creeping dread and chilling horror. She strikes a match, tosses it on the bed, and leaves her old life behind forever. They're both dead, their corpses lying in their bed in the house that Adelaide has just finished dousing with gasoline.
"You kept too many secrets," Adelaide Henry says to her parents, early in Victor LaValle's new novel Lone Women.
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