Leonard Pitts
1) Grant Park
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Weaves together the stories of two veteran journalists from Martin Luther King's final days in Memphis to the 2008 presidential election"--
Author
Description
This powerful novel of three generations of black men bound by blood-and by histories of mutual love, fear, and frustration-gives writer, Leonard Pitts the opportunity to explore the painful truths of black men's lives, especially as they play out in the fraught relations of fathers and sons. As fifty-year-old Mo tries to reach out to his increasingly tuned-out son Trey (who himself has become an unwed teenaged father), he realizes that the burden...