About the book
Born into slavery on a Barbados sugar plantation, eleven-year-old George Washington Black, known as Wash, is picked to serve his cruel master's younger brother, Christopher Wilde, called Titch. To the boy's surprise, Titch is a naturalist, explorer, inventor and abolitionist who wants Wash's help building a flying machine, and he teaches him to read and encourages his gift for drawing. When a death on the plantation puts Wash's life in danger, the two are forced to flee together. Esi Edugyan's third novel, a bildungsroman, took the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and reached the Booker shortlist. Hulu adapted it as a television series in 2025.
Barack Obama put it on his best books of 2018 list, shared on Facebook.
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