Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" From Grandma Gatewood—a mother of

From Grandma Gatewood—a mother of eleven who thru-hiked in canvas sneakers and a drawstring duffle—to Bill Bryson

Sick from the moment she leaves England

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Praised by Steve Martin for his “hilarious tics” and by Tom Bissell as “perhaps the most bafflingly great prose writer at work in the English language today

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