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Also by Leonard Pitts Jr.:

Freeman, May 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Before I Forget, April 2009
Paperback
Becoming Dad, June 2006
Trade Size (reprint)

BEFORE I FORGET
By: Leonard Pitts Jr.

Agate
April 2009
On Sale: March 20, 2009
336 pages
ISBN: 1932841431
EAN: 9781932841435
Paperback
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Fiction

This powerful novel of three generations of black men bound by blood — and by histories of mutual love, fear, and frustration — gives author Leonard Pitts the opportunity to explore the painful truths of black men's lives, especially as they play out in the fraught relations of fathers and sons. As 50-year-old Mo tries to reach out to his increasingly tuned-out son Trey (who himself has become an unwed teenaged father), he realizes that the burden of grief and anger he carries over his own estranged father has everything to do with the struggles he encounters with his son. Part road novel, part character study, and part social critique, and written in compulsively readable prose, Before I Forget is the work of a major new voice in American fiction. Pitts knows inside and out the difficulties facing black men as they grapple with the complexities of their roles as fathers.

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Talk of the Nation - June 21, 2010
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