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One of the TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR New York Times Book Review. Eleven-year-old George Washington Black—or Wash—a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of his master’s brother. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaning, and where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human. Washington Black is a story of self-invention and betrayal, of love and redemption, and of a world destroyed and made whole again.

Characters: 79. Amazon rating: 4 1/2 stars. Genre: Fiction.


 

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