Street Shadows recounts Jerald Walker’s renunciation of the “thug life” he had embraced as a teenager on the South Side of Chicago in favor of the education and middle-class life his parents had alway
A memoir of growing up with blind, African-American parents in a segregated cult preaching the imminent end of the worldWhen The World in Flames begins, in 1970, Jerald Walker is six years old. His co
Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in NonfictionFor the black community, Jerald Walker asserts in How to Make a Slave, “anger is often a prelude to a joke, as there is broad understanding that
A memoir of growing up with blind, African-American parents in a segregated cult preaching the imminent end of the worldWhen The World in Flames begins, in 1970, Jerry Walker is six years old. His con
In 1970, Jerry Walker is six years old. His consciousness revolves around being a member of Herbert W. Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God, whose beliefs he finds not only confusing but terrifying. Fo
