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Anderson, M. T.

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party

359 pp. | Candlewick | October, 2006 | Trade ISBN 0-7636-2402-0 $17.99
(2) YA Young slave Octavian has received, as an experiment, a classical education; in a precise eighteenth-century voice, he narrates the details of his surreal life inside Boston's Novanglian College of Lucidity and also tells of the outside world, as the Revolutionary War begins. Anderson savages the hypocrisy of the nascent United States as only he can, creating an alternative narrative of our national mythology that simultaneously appalls and enthralls.
Reviewer: Vicky Smith | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2006

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