Miles' Song

Miles is a slave, but a slave who is in big trouble. He has looked in a book, one which fell off when he was cleaning in the big house, where he is a favored slave, with lighter skin and better food and clothing than the inferior field hands. And now he is in big trouble, and he is to be sent away to be "broken". What this means, and where he is to be sent, Miles has no idea, but he does know it will mean separation from the only mother he has ever remembered, the elderly slave who takes care of him. Miles grows up in his time away, and is not broken at all, maybe straightened instead. He comes out of his experience a new young man, with new priorities and a new understanding that things are not always as they seem. This is a compelling read, hard to put down.