![]() ![]() All Brown’s followers nod off when he quotes, endlessly and highly eccentrically, from the Bible. Brown’s endless praying seems to be a comedic line that McBride has overinvested in it becomes extremely tedious, a joke flogged to death. The book appears to be very random, as though the author and his editor had failed to spot that there are a troublesome number of repetitions and inconsistencies. This is not the only rather arbitrary plot device. ![]() For some reason that is never explained, Onion is dressed as the daughter of a slave, and John Brown takes charge of the child, whom he regards as a talisman. The Good Lord Bird, McBride, a musician and novelist, enlists an entirely fictional character called Onion, a boy of about 12, to tell the story. ![]()
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