Azealia Banks has been quite vocal lately on a number of issues, but the Harlem MC has quietly been writing a book in her spare time. Banks announced the novel titled Idle Delilah last night on her Tumblr page. The project shares the same name as one of the tracks on her LP Broke With Expensive Taste. A fictional story set in the antebellum South, the book centers around Delilah Maisley whose mother marries a wealthy white slave owner named, Luther Luciferian Lynch.

Check out a snippet of the book, below.

Maisley was one of the Lynch family’s eldest and wisest servants, and spent her life raising several generations of Lynch children, including Delilah’s father. Much to Maisley’s surprise, as repayment for her years of loyalty and care, her own son would lose his life to one of the children she spent her lifetime caring for. When Delilah’s father was just becoming a man, barely old enough to herd cattle or control his own horse, he beat and murdered Maisley’s son for accidentally tipping and spilling a bail of cotton. It had been 23 years since Maisley gathered her son’s body from the bottom of the Artubus tree, or spoke her last word. Nowadays, she sat quietly, responding gently to requests made of her, and watching little Delilah when Mrs. Lynch was away from the plantation, or otherwise occupied. Ms. Maisley heard everything and saw even more.

Peep the full excerpt, HERE.

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