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The Color of Water
Ebony, Feb, 2008
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James McBride, the critically acclaimed author of THE COLOR OF WATER, a memoir of his biracial family, returns with SONG YET SUNG (Riverhead, $25.95), the raw and captivating story of a runaway female slave and a slave-catcher, both seeking freedom, forgiveness and love. The novel's intrinsic duality is played out against the backdrop of a complex web of conflicted relationships between Blacks and Whites in a small Chesapeake Bay town in 1850. The novel, based loosely on historic events, reportedly conveys an accurate measure of "The Code," a cryptic and closely-guarded method of communication for runaway slaves.
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