Someone Knows My Name

This is an adventure story with the highest possible stakes. It portrays the most brutal and debased human urges and doesn’t shy away from graphically depicting horrifying scenes of disease, starvation, torture, filth, and death.

At the center is Aminata Diallo, who was kidnapped from Africa as a child and sent into slavery in North America. In her, Hill has created one of the most luminous characters in contemporary literature. Her voice speaks directly to our hearts with breathtaking authenticity and intelligence.

The beauty of her spirit and the strength of her hope, not to mention the power of her… show more.

Someone Knows My Name, is a poignant portrayal of the horrors of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the inhuman strength and perseverance of a woman who survived it.

As a writer and historian, I love when I find a writer who can put themselves inside the mind of a person from an earlier time. Lawrence Hill truly does, especially the way he describes how alien the new world was for someone who came from a different culture. How every detail is new, and how heart-wrenching it is to be torn from everything you know.