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April Book Club- Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
April 7, 2019 @ 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Join us for April’s book club discussion about Washington Black by Esi Edugyan.
Excerpt from New York Times review:
When the novel “Washington Black” opens, it is 1830 and the young George Washington Black, who narrates his own story, is a slave on a Barbados sugar plantation called Faith, protected, or at least watched over, by an older woman, Big Kit. As a new master takes charge, the fear is palpable. The accounts of murders and punishments and random cruelties are chilling and unsparing. Big Kit can see no way out except death: “Death was a door. I think that is what she wished me to understand. She did not fear it. She was of an ancient faith rooted in the high river lands of Africa, and in that faith the dead were reborn, whole, back in their homelands, to walk again free.”
Full Review at: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/books/review/esi-edugyan-washington-black.html
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