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The Good Lord Bird
James McBride
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'Wildly entertaining. A rollicking saga about one of America's earliest abolitionists' People'Just so brilliant'John Green
Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856.
When an argument between Henry's master and legendary abolitionist John Brown turns violent, Henry is forced to leave town - along with Brown, who believes Henry to be a girl and his good luck charm.
An absorbing mixture of history and imagination, The Good Lord Bird is both a rousing adventure story and a moving exploration of identity and survival.
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
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A brilliant romp of a novel . . . McBride pulls off his portrait masterfully, like a modern-day Mark Twain - New York Times Book ReviewThe Good Lord Bird is just so brilliant. It had everything I want in a novel and left me feeling both transported and transformedWildly entertaining . . . a rollicking saga about one of America's earliest abolitionists - PeopleYou may know the story of John Brown's unsuccessful raid on Harpers Ferry, but author James McBride's retelling of the events leading up to it is so imaginative, you'll race to the finish - NPR
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