Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black Music and how to heal the

and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering

his life is far from perfect

Publisher: Ballantine Books

and—above all—what it means to come home

-Give people the credit they deserve for being stupid—starting with yourself

Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black Music and how to heal theWith a New Introduction and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. Ellis A fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative, Our Nig, apart from its historical significance, is a deeply ironic and highly readable work, tracing the trials and tribulations of Frado, a mulatto girl abandoned by her white mother after the death of the childs black father, who grows up as an