Reinvents the particulars of slavery in America with a comic rage ... The book explodes. Reeds special grace is anger ... a muscular luminous prose The New York TimesIt always was and will always be the most fearlessly original most viciously political most rambunctiously funny epic of slavery ever written. America almost doesnt deserve it Marlon James (2015 Man Booker Prize Winner)I loves it here ... We gets whipped with a velvet whip and theres free dentalcareThree slaves are on the run in the deep South with their former master hot on their heels and the Civil War raging.