Someone Knows My Name
A Canada, Fiction, Cultural book. For this child of mine, home would be me. I would be home. I would be everything for...
"Wonderfully written...as in the slave narratives that inspired it, language is power."—Nancy Kline, New York Times Book ReviewKidnapped as a child from Africa, Aminata Diallo is enslaved in South Carolina but escapes during the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan she becomes a scribe for the British, recording the names of blacks who have...
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Reading felt like a daytime dream in a secret land. Nobody but I knew how to get there, and nobody but I owned that place Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name You must learn to respect," Papa said.But I do not respect her," I said.Papa paused for a moment, and patted my leg. "Then you must learn to hide your disrespect. Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name I stood up to take some air outside. The stars were brilliant that night, and the cicadas were crying in endless song. If the sky was so perfect, why was the earth all wrong? Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name
There isn't enough space to fill all the accolades Lawrence Hill deserves with Someone Knows My Name!! Captivating in every way with a story line that grabs you from the first sentence and ends with you thinking....Awesome!! A book I won't forget and one that is a on my top, top favorites!!! Update (2): This just in from BOOK NEWS -"Lawrence Hill's bestselling novel The Book of Negroes is set to be adapted for film thanks to a chance meeting in a Toronto bookstore."http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/a...Update: "The Book of Negroes" by Lawrence Hill tops Amazon.ca books list for the week ending June 16, 2009Larry's extensive... This is the story of Aminata, stolen from her homeland in Africa and taken into slavery in America on the cusp of the Revolutionary War. Just heart wrenching what she endured, and she was actually one of the lucky ones. Known as Mina, she easily learned languages and how to read, which helped her survive from one owner to the next,...
