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Banks tells the story from the perspective of Brown's son, who joined his father in his famous 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry--a narrative choice that allows Banks to show "the familial repercussions of living with a visionary and martyr" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). Some critics complain that Banks sermonizes.
He befriends a cocaine user doing hard time, then sermonizes about the idiocies of mandatory minimum sentences.