https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ImlSbn43MU An enterprising boy escapes slavery to experience an adventure-filled life in Washington Black Esi Edugyan’s work resonates. By envisioning a 1960s-era Ghanaian civil servant who birthed an African-American settlement in Alberta’s Amber Valley after he inherited land in her debut novel The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, Edugyan paved the way for the breadth…
