Boris is imprisoned in a tiny cell. He finds a hidden tunnel, and tries to escape.
Poetry. "THE ESCAPE is a kinetic maelstrom in which Wasserman's attention is always laconic and precise...prose where diary and fiction slip around each other...a music that is intoxicating and unmistakable...
At the age of 20, William Wells Brown escaped a life of slavery and found freedom on the banks of the Ohio River.