I find it challenging to review a nonfiction. How do you review and rate someone’s life story? Cudjo’s story is one of survival and incredible strength and resiliency which given the circumstances... What takes the story apart from other slave narratives that I’ve read is that we see his life, his story beginning in Africa, his home country. We see as he tries to preserve culture and religion while living in America after being freed. After reading I needed to sit with it for a while, he could be my grandfather.