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The Good Lord Bird

(2013)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
2014 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction (longlist)
2013 National Book Award for Fiction

FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE
'Just so brilliant'
John Green


'Wildly entertaining. A rollicking saga about one of America's earliest abolitionists'
People

Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856.

When an argument between Henry's master and legendary abolitionist John Brown turns violent, Henry is forced to leave town - along with Brown, who believes Henry to be a girl and his good luck charm.

An absorbing mixture of history and imagination,
The Good Lord Bird is both a rousing adventure story and a moving exploration of identity and survival.




Genre: Literary Fiction

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