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It wasn't news to me that McBride can inhabit a narrator and nimbly wield dry wit. What really struck me about this book, though, was how subtly and successfully he uses those things to highlight the complicated nature of (in contemporary terms, I suppose we'd say "problematize") John Brown and the broader work of the abolition of slavery in the U.S. A religious zealot gone round the bend? It seems so. But then isn't a country that claims to be Christian yet persists in chattel slavery the very
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3.5 stars. One of those books that takes a while to read, but then the ending is very moving.
May 13, 2014
Laura Jane
marked it as to-read
