The Good Lord Bird (National Book Award Winner): A Novel

The Good Lord Bird (National Book Award Winner): A Novel

<b><b><b><b>Soon to be a Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke</b></b></b></b> <br><br><b><b>Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction</b></b> <b><b> </b></b><br><b><b> </b></b> <br><b><b>A Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Oprah Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year</b></b> <b><b> </b></b><br><b><b> </b></b> <b><br> <b>From the bestselling author of <i>The Color of Water,</i> <i>Song Yet Sung, Five-Carat Soul, </i>and <i>Kill 'Em and Leave</i>, a James Brown biography, comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown€s antislavery crusade€"and who must pass as a girl to survive.</b></b><br><br> Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry€s master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town€"with Brown, who believes he€s a girl.<br><br> Over the ensuing months, Henry€"whom Brown nicknames Little Onion€"conceals his true identity as he struggles to stay alive. Eventually Little Onion finds himself with Brown at the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859€"one of the great catalysts for the Civil War.<br><br> An absorbing mixture of history and imagination, and told with McBride€s meticulous eye for detail and character, <i>The Good Lord Bird</i> is both a rousing adventure and a moving exploration of identity and survival.