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And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis imagine a narrative full of irreverent humor and packed with largerthanlife adventures thats also a thoughtprovoking commentary on our collective history, as i think about it, with colorful characters, both real and imagined. You have a sense of whats in store for you when you read James Mcbrides latest novel, the good lord bird. It takes place in 1856 kansas, when that region was a battleground between proslavery forces and abolitionists, and features both john brown and Frederick Douglass. Its hero is a runaway slave who hides his identity, pretending to be a girl. James mcbride, as always, good to have you on this program. Well thank you, good to be back. Tavis and you have done it once again. Well, i just happened to be standing in the room when god crossed and i had a handkerchief. [laug ....