Middle Passage

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Call Number: Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf

A freed slave escapes his bad debts in New Orleans by stowing away on a slave ship en route to Africa.

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Best for discussion submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on July 14, 2017, 10:56pm This was a bizarre book. I expected it to be historical fiction about the Middle Passage, the horrific trans-Atlantic slave trade that supported North America's slavery in the early part of the 1800's. That's there, but as told by a rapscallion narrator from the cornfields of the midwest who uses vocabulary words that would put a PhD to shame. Throw in a dwarf ship's captain and an actual African god in a wooden crate in the cargo hold, and I was pretty lost as to whether this was satire, comedy, philosophy (what ARE the things we offer up?), or, indeed, fiction or historical fiction.

This book was an interesting read that was certainly thought provoking, even if it was confusing at times. I think it would work best as a focus for discussion, actually, because it would be in teasing out all the meanings and layers that its best side would show.