Review: "The Good Lord Bird" by James McBride

There is more than one way to tell the truth, “The Good Lord Bird” reminds us again and again, and many reasons to cloak it in humor. (first published in The Arts Fuse)

The Good Lord Bird, by James McBride. Riverhead Books, 432 pp. $27.95

By Clea Simon



James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird serves up history as a morality tale, played out in faith and plumage.

That doesn’t mean The Good Lord