This summer Student Services has suggested to all Dal students that they read Lawrence Hill’s award-winning novel The Book of Negroes, winner of this year’s CBC “Canada Reads” competition. On September 9th there will be a series of group discussions of the book held around campus, including one at the Killam Library. This will be the first of what will hopefully will be an annual “Dal Reads” event.

Check out the new Dal Reads blog and view the video of Jian Ghomeshi’s interview with Lawrence Hill. Read the actual text of the original Book of Negroes online at Black Loyalists: Our History, Our People. If you’ve read Hill’s The Book of Negroes or are reading it right now, tell us what you think of it!