Plot summary, “Song of the Shank” by Jeffery Renard Allen in 5 Minutes - Book Review

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Published on February 8, 2023 12:11:28 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxZvcTeCGqM

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Song of the Shank is a novel by Jeffery Renard Allen, published by Graywolf Press in 2014. It is the author's second novel. His first novel, Rails Under My Back, was published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux fourteen years earlier in 2000.
The publisher described the novel as following: At the heart of this remarkable novel is Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century slave and improbable musical genius who performed under the name Blind Tom.