McBride, the author of such recent classics as The Color of Water, and Miracle at St. Anna won the 2013 National Book Award for this tale told from the point of view of a young slave freed by John Brown during an altercation in pre-Civil War Kansas. Brown promptly renames the child Onion, and he is known by that name for most of the book
Brown, and most of the other characters, come across as somewhere between absurd and crazy in this raucous and enjoyable book.There is (as one would expect given the time and place) a whole bunch of violence, and Onion has to find a way through with no one looking out for him (at least no one who's sane).
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