"Sparkling, witty dialogue is one of the chief reasons this [book]...is so pleasurable to read...deliciously erotic scenes celebrate the passion and playfulness of emotionally intimate bonds." - The Globe & Mail. This novel is roughly based on Lawrence Hill's own heritage - his father was black and his mother was white. Hill is the author of the much more famous "Book of Negroes", which inexplicably (at least to me) was renamed "Someone Knows my Name" for the American market.

This book has been on my "TBR" list for too long. 'Passing it on in a Canada Bookbox. Larry (Lawrence) Hill is a great writer, and a really good interview. I saw him with Joseph Boyden a few years ago at McNally Books when they had a Don Mills location. Both guys were so engaging and funny.

Found in Flat Rate Canadian Book Box. I was born and raised in Oakville, Ontario so I think this will be interesting to read a book with ties to Oakville.

Historical fiction loosely based on the authors family.

The book got me thinking about race, and family in new ways. It was interesting to read bits about my home town, from street names, the Green Bean (local coffee shop) and the Oakville Museum. I grew up knowing about the incident with the KKK in Oakville, and that Oakville had one of the early black churches. I found it interesting how the author weaved these stories into the book.

One of the characters was a stone hooker, the only known building made by this method still exsists in the Bronte area of Oakville.

I thought it would be fitting to realese this book on Canada's Emancipation Day (August First) in Oakville where part of the story takes part.

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