And Octavian’s bowel movements are not weighed, measured, and recorded because he is so special, but because he is being treated as a scientific experiment. His mother was not brought to America as a princess, but as a slave. Octavian lives in a great house with his mother (a princess from Africa) and they are both treated like royalty he and his mother are the other people in the whole house who have names – everyone else is referred to be a number.Īnd yet, as he grows older, Octavian begins to realize that all is not right. the astonishing life of octavian nothing: traitor to the nation Unfortunately, for me, it didn’t deliver. Octavian Nothing has a pretty fascinating premise and I tend to love historical fiction, so it seemed like a easy choice. It wasn’t a bad book, just not interesting enough to hold my attention. The only thing I didn’t forget was how long, how many bike rides to and from work, it took me to plow through these CDs. I listened to the Octavian Nothing audiobook (alternate title: “It Will Take You Longer to Read The Title than the Book”) and I forgot about it the moment I finished it. Octavian is treated like royalty in the house of his Boston masters, until he realizes that they are using him as a science experiment to determine if Africans are equal, physically, mentally, and morally, to the European whites.
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