{"id":3897,"date":"2009-12-15T19:52:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T19:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3897"},"modified":"2011-11-14T02:56:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T02:56:19","slug":"any-known-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3897","title":{"rendered":"Any Known Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.ca\/books\/9780006391760\/Any_Known_Blood\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Any Known Blood<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Harper Collins Canada<br \/>\n2001-09-20<br \/>\n528 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780006391760; ISBN10: 0006391761<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrencehill.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence Hill<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.ca\/books\/9780006391760\/Any_Known_Blood\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/harperimages\/isbn\/medium\/0\/9780006391760.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Langston Cane V is 38, divorced and working as a government speechwriter, until he\u2019s fired for sabotaging the minister\u2019s speech. It seems the perfect time for Langston, the eldest son of a white mother and prominent black father, to embark on a quest to discover his family\u2019s past\u2014and his own sense of self.<\/p>\n<p><em>Any Known Blood<\/em> follows five generations of an African-Canadian-American family in a compelling story that slips effortlessly from the slave trade of 19th-century Virginia to the modern, predominantly white suburbs of Oakville, Ontario\u2014once a final stop on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Underground_Railroad\" target=\"_blank\">Underground Railroad<\/a>. Elegant and sensuous, wry and witty, it is an engrossing tale about one man\u2019s attempt to find himself through unearthing and giving voice to those who came before him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any Known Blood Harper Collins Canada 2001-09-20 528 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780006391760; ISBN10: 0006391761 Lawrence Hill Langston Cane V is 38, divorced and working as a government speechwriter, until he\u2019s fired for sabotaging the minister\u2019s speech. It seems the perfect time for Langston, the eldest son of a white mother and prominent black father, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,8,15,6940],"tags":[1568],"class_list":["post-3897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-canada","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-slavery","tag-lawrence-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}