Just as his character, Aminata Diallo is a storyteller, so is Lawrence Hill. Although Aminata is telling her story, it is a history of the slave trade in North America. It starts in Africa with her capture and ends in London where as a freed slave she tells her story to abolitionist audiences. Hill not only illuminates the babarity of the slave trade, but gives the reader an understandingof the indigo and rice trade in the South Carolina, the role of slaves in the Revolutionary War, and the consequential freedom and resettling of some slaves in Nova Scotia. It is powerfully written, hard to put down, and would make an excellent book group choice.January 2008 NYT review by Nancy Kline
Hi Diana,
ReplyDeleteThis comment isn't about this post, but I'm writing about Narrative Magazine, a free online literary journal I subscribe to. It's holding a couple writing contests right now, and I know a lot of readers are also avid writers. So, I've included some information about the contests, and a general link to Narrative Magazine, for those who are interested.
Narrative Magazine website: http://narrativemagazine.com/
Narrative Magazine Spring Story Contest (fiction and non-fiction), $3,250 first prize award, deadline July 31, 2009. Here's the link: http://narrativemagazine.com/spring-story-contest
Narrative Magazine First-Ever Poetry Contest, first prize $1,500, deadline July 18, 2009. Here's the link: http://narrativemagazine.com/poetry-contest
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