The Good Lord Bird (National Book Award Winner)

Winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction Soon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber and Jaden Smith A Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Oprah Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year 'A magnificent new novel by the best-selling author James McBride.' -cover review of The New York Times Book Review 'Outrageously entertaining.' -USA Today 'James McBride delivers another tour de force' -Essence 'So imaginative, you'll race to the finish.' -NPR.org 'Wildly entertaining.'--4-star People lead review 'A boisterous, highly entertaining, altogether original novel.' - Washington Post Look out for McBride's new book, Five-Carat Soul From the bestselling author of The Color of Water, Song Yet Sung, and Kill 'Em and Leave, a James Brown biography, comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown's antislavery crusade--and who must pass as a girl to survive. Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a