Washington Black – 4/5 Stars This novel just recently was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and by all rights, it should win. It also is possibly the front runner given that a Canadian author has not won in some time…possibly since Margaret Atwood for The Blind Assassin, but I’d have to check. It’s also quite simply the best book on the list that I’ve read and while I was worried it was going to be a little whimsical or odd, it’s actually nearly perfect. It’s Haiti in the 1830s on a sugar plantation owned by a British businessman. He also […]
I might have been ten, eleven years old–I cannot say for certain–when my first master died. No one grieved him
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