The Good Lord Bird
by James McBride
Buy on AmazonThis wildly imagined story of a slave boy mistaken to be a girl takes us on rollicking ride with the abolitionist John Brown on his way to Harper’s Ferry. The voice of the narrator is genuine and pitch perfect, hilarious in musing on the mistakes, accidents and opportunities he took to find freedom, and a meditation on the choices in life.
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"This wildly imagined story of a slave boy mistaken to be a girl takes us on rollicking ride with the abolitionist John Brown on his way to Harper’s Ferry. The voice of the narrator is genuine and pitch perfect, hilarious in musing on the mistakes, accidents and opportunities he took to find freedom, and a meditation on the choices in life."
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