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