For George Washington Wash Black, it seems, not much.
What is it like Kit, free?
She responds: Oh, child, it is like nothing in this world.
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When you free, you could do anything.
Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize,Washington Blackdepicts slavery unsparingly but its about freedom.
What Kit tells a young Wash resounds throughout, less for its truth than its tragically unfulfilled promise.
Tamara Poppitt
InWashington Black, Edugyan writes within the constraints of her time period aptly.
The novels towering achievement rests in its simultaneous realism and imagination.
Washs candid narration grounds the story; the path Edugyan lays out for him seems boundless.
Wash witnesses each firsthand, and they haunt him everywhere he goes.
He hears the ghostly cry of a baby.
He mourns for suffering women like Kit.
From there, a death occurs, and from there, an escape that spans continents.
Wash and Titch make it to Canada, where they encounter the latters father.
She confronts slaverys legacy with acuity, depth, and staggering grief.A-
