I Who Have Never Known Men Isabel Canas James McBride has written a

James McBride has written a novel as compassionate as Deacon King Kong and as inventive as The Good Lord Bird

and possible motives for their friend's murder

darkly sexual

emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing

I Who Have Never Known Men Isabel Canas James McBride has written a"Deep underground, thirty nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl the fortieth prisoner sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange