Golden Apple of the Sun by Teju Cole
strongest lockdown lit i’ve (yet) to encounter
Tag: slavery
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
middling swashbuckling adventure
Clotel or, the President’s Daughter by William Wells Brown
excellent, significant, 19th century anti-slavery novel
Puffin’s Canadian Children’s Classics
read some local children’s fiction; mostly bad
Washington Square by Henry James
a mediocre short novel
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
I read another great, serious, time travel novel
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
acclaimed canadian steampunky slavery novel
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
impressive, emotive, historical
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Can I write about writing about race without discussing race? No.
