They Tell Me of a Home A Novel

Name: They Tell Me of a Home A Novel
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ISBN: 9780312362836

ISBN-10: 0312362838

ISBN-13: 9780312362836

Edition: 2007

Authors: Daniel Black

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Twenty-eight-year-old protagonist Tommy Lee Tyson steps off the Greyhound bus in his hometown of Swamp Creek, Arkansas--a place he left when he was eighteen, vowing never to return. Yet fate and a Ph.D. in black studies force him back to his rural origins as he seeks to understand himself and the black community that produced him. A cold, nonchalant father and an emotionally indifferent mother make his return, after a ten-year hiatus, practically unbearable, and the discovery of his baby sister's death and her burial in the backyard almost consumes him. His mother watches his agony when he discovers his sister's tombstone, but neither she nor other family members is willing to disclose the…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 11/28/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English