The Good Lord Bird
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Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-nineteenth-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.
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moodeh submitted by gogo on June 17, 2019, 8:15pm moodeh
1100 submitted by timbecka on July 13, 2019, 8:03pm pointa
First-rate historical humor submitted by FordAlpha on August 29, 2019, 10:23pm Bloody and brilliant, horrifying and hilarious, profane and poetic, this historical novel is like nothing else I have ever read. It alludes in many ways to "Huckleberry Finn", and James McBride is every bit as funny as Mark Twain while turning the events of that classic novel on their heads. It's not for the squeamish, but I couldn't put it down. Reading "The Good Lord Bird" inspired me to read several other books, both fiction and non-fiction, about John Brown and the Bleeding Kansas period.
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Amazing book submitted by fivenson on January 19, 2021, 1:43pm A winner. 11 stars ( out of 10). Did I say 'highly recommended'? Highly recommended!

PUBLISHED
New York : Riverhead Books, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: 417 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781594486340
1594486344
SUBJECTS
Brown, John, -- 1800-1859 -- Fiction.
Fugitive slaves -- Fiction.
Abolitionists -- Fiction.
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 -- Fiction.
Historical fiction