December 8, 6:30pm-8pm
Join other readers in this monthly book discussion. Contact: Barbara Shatara at bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov for meeting info and how to obtain the book. This month's discussion is led by Peter Burns.
About This Month's Book:
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan.
Eleven-year-old George Washington Black—or Wash—a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of his master’s brother. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaning, and where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human.
