2013-11-26: Re-read. Still so good! Book of Negroes/Someone Knows My Name was chosen as the One Book One Calgary book for 2013, so Calgary Public library has a number of events to complement the book. First of which was a kick-off event with Larry Hill where he spoke about some of his new writing, read from Book of Negroes and did an author signing. It all made me want to re-read the book, and I devoured it once again. 
 2008-10-01: So, so good! I bought it on Friday when I saw Larry Hill talk at a local bookstore, so I have an awesome signed copy and he's a really good speaker. Anyways, it's about the history of this woman, Aminata Diallo, who was captured as a child in West Africa for the slave trade. She was brought to the Carolinas and sold as a slave, she made it to New York and was evacuated to Nova Scotia when the British moved loyalists out of the States when they lost the Revolutionary War.