The Good Lord Bird
The two join together, and Henry narrates his encounters with Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and the events at John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.In a review for the Los Angeles Times, Héctor Tobar called the novel "laugh-out-loud funny and filled with many wonderfully bizarre images", but noted the lack of humanity in comparison to Huckleberry Finn or Middle Passage (1990).Although The Good Lord Bird might offend some readers, it might also offer "a new way of talking-indeed joking-about race in America today" (New York Times Book Review)"."[7][8] In a review for the San Francisco Chronicle, novelist Amity Gaige praised McBride's "reimagining" of Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry and added that he "[managed] to novelize real historical events without dreary prostrations to the act".[10] National Book Award judges called McBride "a voice as comic and original as any we have heard since Mark Twain.