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Amistad
September 2023
On Sale: September 12, 2023
Featuring: Babe
336 pages
ISBN: 0063258994
EAN: 9780063258990
Kindle: B0BPSYDRSX
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Fiction Family Life
The first novel from one of the original Kings of Comedy,
Cedric “The Entertainer,” an engaging and
entertaining crime caper that is a valentine to close-knit
black families and tightly woven communities struggling to
get by during the Depression and World War II.
Babe is a charismatic and widely loved man, a gambler
with a gift for gab that often gets him out of tricky
situations. He’s also a dreamer, something he shares
with his patient and loving wife, Rosie. They both yearn for
financial stability and see the land they own as insurance
for future generations. But when Babe and a few comrades
enlist in a scheme that improbably falls apart, he endangers
the little security the family has.
On the verge of losing everything, what’s a family
man to do?
If you’re a gambler like Babe, you double down and
risk it all for one big score—this time, a plan
involving railroad boxcars.
Will Babe succeed? Will Rosie continue to support her
husband? Are the Feds on to his make-or-break scheme?
Flipping Boxcars is Cedric “The
Entertainer” at his most engaging best—a
charming, fast-paced novel that pays homage to his beloved
grandfather and a generation past, anchored by rich, multi-
dimensional characters and oozing with irresistible charm.
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