takes readers on an odyssey that begins in a west African village, travels across the Atlantic in a slave ship to a Carolina plantation, and continues on to Nova Scotia, Africa and England. The ...

Lawrence Hill's historical intelligence was already manifest in his 1997 novel, "Any Known Blood," in which he used racial and geographic borders to explore and transform a Canadian story. In his new ...

Lawrence Hill's third novel was published as *The Book of Negroes* in Canada, Great Britain, South Africa and India and as *Someone Knows My Name* in the USA, Australia and New Zealand. It won the ...

This week at the Quincy Public Library the staff recommends "Someone Knows My Name" by Lawrence Hill. Spanning six decades, this remarkable novel graphically depicts one woman's life as both a slave ...

Stunning, wrenching and inspiring, the fourth novel by Canadian novelist Hill (Any Known Blood) spans the life of Aminata Diallo, born in Bayo, West Africa, in 1745. The novel opens in 1802, as ...