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The Good Lord Bird

By: James McBride
Narrated by: Michael Boatman
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FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE

'Just so brilliant'
John Green

Wildly entertaining. A rollicking saga about one of America's earliest abolitionists'
People

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.

©2013 James McBride (P)2013 Penguin Audiobooks
Action & Adventure African American Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction
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