Gary Gray marries his first girlfriend, a fellow student from Central Florida Christian College who loves Disney World as much as he does. They are nineteen, God-fearing, and eager to start a family,
Held captive by her employers-and by her own demons-on a mysterious farm, a widow struggles to reunite with her young son in this uniquely American story of freedom, perseverance, and survival.Darlene
The raucous, irreverent, and harrowing story of a transgender woman'sreentry into life on the outside after more than twenty years in prison,over one eventful Fourth of July weekend in Brooklynfrom the author of the PEN/Faulkner Award winner Delicious Foods.Carlotta Mercedes has been misunderstood her entire life. When she was pulled into a liquor-store robbery gone wrong in her early twenties, she still went by Dustin Chambers, the name she grew up with in her Brooklyn neighborhood of Fort Greenebefore it gentrified. But within a year of going to prison, she took the name Carlotta and transitioned. Prison authorities rejected this embrace of selfhood, and Carlotta served twenty-two years in an all-male cell block, abused by both inmates and guards, and often placed in solitary.But in her fifth appearance before the parole board, Carlotta is at last granted conditional freedom and given a bus ticket back to a New York City that has changed as much in the intervening decades as she hers
An inventive feat of storytelling bravado that captures the pathos and absurdity of addiction as it comes between a mother and her son. Darlene, once a loving mother to her young son, Eddie, is devast
An inventive feat of storytelling bravado that captures the pathos and absurdity of addiction as it comes between a mother and her son. Darlene, once a loving mother to her young son, Eddie, is devast
