Middle Passage

Name: Middle Passage
Author: Charles Johnson

by Charles Johnson

Charles Johnson's "Middle Passage" (a book about the slave trade that has a lot of Melville and John Gardner — one of my favorite novelists — in its DNA).

Recommended by

Nathaniel Philbrick

"Charles Johnson's "Middle Passage" (a book about the slave trade that has a lot of Melville and John Gardner — one of my favorite novelists — in its DNA)."

By the Book: Nathaniel Philbrick · nytimes.com