I was looking for a book as my choice for our coming year's book club. I decided to choose a book by a Canadian author as Canada is my country of birth and I want to honor that. I have read many Canadian authors but I wanted to go outside that list of authors. Not exactly sure how I Googled it but this book came up fairly close to the top of the list of results. What serendipity! With much of the news now focused on the Black Lives Matter movement, it is a good time to reflect on how we got here. I have read my share of books regarding slavery in the US; however, in the present I have just read this book and it shines. The heroine, Aminata Diallo, is so compelling - it is impossible to not feel her pain and be absolutely infuriated about her treatment, even by "good" white people.