A provocative and dizzying satire (The New Yorker) that boldly turns
history on its head (Elle) from the Man Booker Prize winning author of
Girl, Woman, Other.
What if the history of the transatlantic slave trade had been reversed
and Africans had enslaved Europeans? How would that have changed the
ways that people justified their inhuman behavior? How would it inform
our cultural attitudes and the insidious racism that still lingers
today? We see this tragicomic world turned upside down through the eyes
of Doris, an Englishwoman enslaved and taken to the New World, movingly
recounting experiences of tremendous hardship and the dreams of the
people she has left behind, all while journeying toward an escape into
freedom.
A poignant and dramatic story grounded in provocative ideas, Blonde
Roots is a genuinely original, profoundly imaginative novel.