Title: Blonde roots
First published: 2009
Description: 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.
Subjects: Slave trade, alternate history, Fiction, Children's fiction, Slavery, fiction, United states, fiction, Family life, fiction
LC classification: PR6055.V25 B56 2009