Middle Passage

Long after we’d stopped believe in the great American novel, along comes a spellbinding adventure story that may be just thatChicago Tribune

A novel in the honorable tradition of Billy Budd and Moby Dick... heroic in proportion...fiction that hooks into the mindNew York Times Book Review

A rousing adventure yarn that resonates with and echoes the spirit of early sea stories. . . Johnson has fashioned a tale of travel and tragedy, yearning and history, and done so from a different, rarely explored viewpoint. . . .Middle Passage is a story of slavery, often brilliant in its structure and riveting in the way it's toldSan Francisco Chronicle

Middle Passage has it all - rich lyricism and erudition, apocalyptic storms, clumsy ships disintegrating beneath their sputtering sailors and perilous philosophical conflicts.Independent