![]() Playing with themes of divine justice and the suffering of the righteous, McFadden presents a remarkably crisp portrait of one average man's extraordinary bravery in the face of pure evil." Partly set in the Jim Crow South, the novel succeeds in showing the prevalence of racism all across the country-whether implemented through institutionalized mechanisms or otherwise. "McFadden packs a powerful punch with tight prose and short chapters that bear witness to key events in early twentieth-century history: both World Wars, the Great Depression, and the Great Migration. This is a story about the triumph of the human spirit over bigotry, intolerance and cruelty, and at the center of The Book of Harlan is the restorative force that is music." ![]() "Simply miraculous.As her saga becomes ever more spellbinding, so does the reader's astonishment at the magic she creates. One of the Washington Post's Best Books of 2016 So Far ![]()
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