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Fred D’Aguiar won the Whitebread First Novel Award for The Longest Memory, which focuses on Whitechapel’s disintegration after the death of his son. Conditioned to serve his master in the best way possible, Whitechapel becomes an exemplary overseer, ensuring obedience and respect from the slaves on the plantation. However, his conflict with his youngest child, and only son, Chapel, sets him on a collision course that captures generational change and signals the beginning of the end of the slave trade.
The Longest Memory is a multi-narrated novella – a format that allows D’Aguiar to explore the different narrative perspectives and styles that reveal the views, values and mindsets of the various stakeholders.
