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James McBride Blends Fact With Fiction in 'Song'
James McBride's new novel, Song Yet Sung, is a lyrical tale of this country's biggest drama: slavery. Set a decade before the Civil War on Maryland's Eastern Shore, it is the story of a runaway slave who has visions of the future and a Chesapeake Bay waterman who becomes a slave catcher because he needs the money. A tumult of fictional and historical characters and events, the book "is filled with ambiguity," the author says.