47, paperback/walter mosley

New York Times Bestseller Engaging.

-- Publishers Weekly , starred review Master storyteller Walter Mosley deftly mixes speculative and historical fiction in this daring New York Times bestselling novel, reminiscent of Colson Whiteheads The Underground Railroad .

47 is a young slave boy living under the watchful eye of a brutal slave master.

His life seems doomed until he meets a mysterious runaway slave, Tall John.

47 finds himself swept up in a struggle for his own liberation.