On Wednesday, January 28 at 6:00 pm, Book Club will meet to discuss “Washington Black” by Esi Edugyan. Copies will be available at the checkout desk. You can also find ebook and audiobook copies on the Libby app. Click the title above to see the different editions available and place a hold if you would like a specific one.
This thrilling adventure novel was recently adapted into a miniseries for Hulu!
Summary from the catalog:
“Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. When his master’s eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or “Titch, ” is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor, and abolitionist. He initiates Wash into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky; where two people, separated by an impossible divide, might begin to see each other as human; and where a boy born in chains can embrace a life of dignity and meaning. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash’s head, Titch abandons everything to save him. What follows is their flight along the eastern coast of America, and, finally, to a remote outpost in the Arctic, where Wash, left on his own, must invent another new life.”