‘Gripping . . . One often risks turning the pages so fast as to miss some of the richness and subtlety of the writing’ New York Times
In the days before the Civil War, an enslaved woman named Liz Spocott breaks free from her captors and escapes into the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore, setting loose a drama of violence and hope among slave catchers, plantation owners, watermen, runaway slaves and free blacks.
Filled with rich, historical details and told in McBride’s signature lyrical style, Song Yet Sung is a story of tragic triumph, violent decisions and unexpected kindness.
In the days before the Civil War, an enslaved woman named Liz Spocott breaks free from her captors and escapes into the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore, setting loose a drama of violence and hope among slave catchers, plantation owners, watermen, runaway slaves and free blacks.
Filled with rich, historical details and told in McBride’s signature lyrical style, Song Yet Sung is a story of tragic triumph, violent decisions and unexpected kindness.
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Reviews
McBride keeps the suspense high as he raises troubling questions about slavery's legacy, the price of freedom and what it means to be human
Gripping, affecting, and beautifully paced, Song Yet Sung illuminates, in the most dramatic fashion, a deeply troubled, vastly complicated moment in American history
Engrossing
Powerful . . . A complex, ever-tightening, increasingly suspenseful web
McBride has fashioned a myth of retribution and sacrifice that recalls both William Faulkner's sagas of blighted generations and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon. Explosively dramatic