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Don't cry for me : a novel
- Title
- Don't cry for me : a novel / Daniel Black.
- Author
- Black, Daniel
- Publication
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2022]
- ©2022
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc D 23-493 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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Details
- Description
- 301 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "A Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise and penetrating novel of empathy and forgiveness, for fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robert Jones Jr. and Alice Walker. As Jacob lies dying, he begins to write a letter to his only son, Isaac. They have not met or spoken in many years, and there are things that Isaac must know. Stories about his ancestral legacy in rural Arkansas that extend back to slavery. Secrets from Jacob's tumultuous relationship with Isaac's mother and the shame he carries from the dissolution of their family. Tragedies that informed Jacob's role as a father and his reaction to Isaac's being gay. But most of all, Jacob must share with Isaac the unspoken truths that reside in his heart. He must give voice to the trauma that Isaac has inherited. And he must create a space for the two to find peace. With piercing insight and profound empathy, acclaimed author Daniel Black illuminates the lived experiences of Black fathers and queer sons, offering an authentic and ultimately hopeful portrait of reckoning and reconciliation. Spare as it is sweeping, poetic as it is compulsively readable, Don't Cry for Me is a monumental novel about one family grappling with love's hard edges and the unexpected places where hope and healing take flight." --
- Alternative Title
- Do not cry for me
- Subject
- African American families > Fiction
- Fathers and sons > Fiction
- Parents of gay people > Fiction
- Intergenerational relations > Fiction
- African American gay men > Fiction
- Terminally ill > Fiction
- African American families
- African American gay men
- Fathers and sons
- Intergenerational relations
- Parents of gay people
- Terminally ill
- Fathers
- Sons
- Family members
- Parents of gay men
- Parents of LGBTQ+ people
- Intergenerational relationships
- LGBTQ+ relationships
- African American LGBTQ+ people
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- Epistolary fiction.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- LGBTQ+ fiction.
- Gay fiction.
- Call Number
- Sc D 23-493
- ISBN
- 9781335425737
- 133542573X
- 9781335449351
- 1335449353
- LCCN
- 2022289534
- OCLC
- 1293448139
- Author
- Black, Daniel, author.
- Title
- Don't cry for me : a novel / Daniel Black.
- Publisher
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2022]
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 23-493JFD 22-1710