Flight to Canada

Flight to Canada is a 1976 novel by African-American author Ishmael Reed. Set in the last years of the American [Civil War] and its aftermath, the story makes ready use of anachronism, referencing both actual and fabricated pop-cultural phenomena from the twentieth century, such as the made-up "Beecher Hour" TV show, as well as technology such alike cassette tapes, jumbo jets, and Coffee-Mate. Published in the year of the United States Bicentennial, the book was called "a demonized Uncle [Tom's Cabin]" by The [New York Times]. Reed himself has described the novel, as a "neo–slave narrative", and its influence has been identified in the work of Colson Whitehead.