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An absorbing mixture of history and imagination, and told with McBride’s meticulous eye for detail and character, The Good Lord Bird is both a rousing adventure and a moving exploration of identity and survival.
Aug 20, 2013 · Kindle Edition. by James McBride (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.4 7,476 ratings. See all formats and editions. National Book Award Winner, 2013. Now a Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke and Daveed Diggs. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. Winner of the Morning News Tournament of Books. “A brilliant romp of a novel…McBride…pulls off his portrait masterfully, like a modern-day Mark Twain.”. — The New York Times Book Review.
Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry’s master quickly turns violent.
Aug 20, 2013 · Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction From the bestselling author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and The Color of Water comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade—and who must pass as a girl to survive.
Aug 15, 2013 · Listen here. James McBride’s new novel, narrated by a freed slave boy who passes as a girl, is a romp about John Brown’s violent crusade against slavery.
Aug 23, 2013 · James McBride's The Good Lord Bird follows 10-year-old ex-slave Henry, known as "the Onion," as he travels with abolitionist John Brown.
