ANY KNOWN BLOOD - Lawrence Hill

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Canadian Langston Cane V finds his writing career (and, indeed, his life) in stasis until inspired by his mentor to write about an ancestor who purportedly died fighting alongside John Brown at Harpers Ferry.  Traveling to Baltimore, the latter-day Cane delves into history and in so doing awakens to new possibilities . . . 

At once elegant and sensuous, wry and witty, and chock full o historical detail, Any Known Blood slips effortlessly from the slave trade of 19th-century Virginia to the modern, predominantly white suburbs of Oakville, Ontario (once a final stop on the Underground Railroad) as it tells an engrossing tale about one man’s attempt to find himself through unearthing and giving voice to those who came before him.