The Good Lord Bird

Short Review: This is the best of the three McBride books I have read over the past year.

It is the story of a young teen, sort of freed by John Brown. But in the process his father was killed. Brown thinks that Henry is a girl because he is dressed only in a long shirt and for the rest of the novel Henry plays a girl. This is both played for humor and social commentary.

The novel continues through the Harper's Ferry raid. Worth reading, but feels a little bit off of perfect but I am not quite sure why.

My longer thought http://bookwi.se/good-lord-bird/