MILLBROOK – WASHINGTON BLACK

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Come join Kira and the Merritt Book Club discuss Washington Black, by Esi Edugyan.

George Washington Black, or "Wash," an eleven-year-old field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is terrified to be chosen by his master's brother as his manservant. To his surprise, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world, where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human. Washington Black tells a story of self-invention and betrayal, of love and redemption, of a world destroyed and made whole again, and asks the question, What is true freedom?

Bring your favorite beverage and come and join the invigorating conversation!