Booknotes 5.14 — Blog (opens in new tab)

Twelve Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup (edited by David Wilson), published 1853, memoir, 292 pages. So. Good. With the thick sense of dread in the first part — knowing what’s coming — and the drive to escape later on, it felt a bit like a horror novel. Slavery: still inhumane, still unbearably evil. What a compelling and heartbreaking book. Highly recommended, along with The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass. Foster, by Claire Keegan, published 2010, fiction, 34 pages. I normally try not ...