378 pages
English language
Published Nov. 7, 1998 by McDougal Littell.
The story of John Grimes, a young Black man living in Harlem in the 1930s and his relationship with his strict storefront preacher-father, Gabriel, who had moved from the South to escape his past. The story also follows the difficult passage of the son of a stoically courageous mother to manhood amid the family's past from the Deep South to Depression-era Harlem.
The story of John Grimes, a young Black man living in Harlem in the 1930s and his relationship with his strict storefront preacher-father, Gabriel, who had moved from the South to escape his past. The story also follows the difficult passage of the son of a stoically courageous mother to manhood amid the family's past from the Deep South to Depression-era Harlem.
Subjects
- African American men
- Juvenile fiction
- African American families
- Parent and child
Places
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
- New York (State)
- New York
- Harlem