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Losing Absalom is the gripping story of one man, one family and one community. Their tale of contemporary tragedy and uncertain triumph is, however, as relevant as tomorrow's headlines. Like many of his generation, Absalom Goodman worked all his life to keep his family together, to create a home where his children would grow up with decent values and a solid future. With his impending death to brain cancer, the family must make their own choices.
Sonny has found success but lost his roots by moving up the corporate ladder; his sister Rainy, still clinging to daydreams of a singing career, has drifted into a relationship with a drug dealer. Losing Absalom brings the Goodmans, along with neighbors and friends, together for a magical and terrible moment - perhaps the most crucial turning point of their lives.
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Losing Absalom
August 1, 1995, Berkley, Berkley Publishing Group
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0425150135 9780425150139
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Sonny Goodman may have hopped the “modern underground railroad called education” and arrived in far-flung Minneapolis, but with the impending death of his father, North Philadelphia is calling him home. Quickly caught in the web that inner-city life has woven around his family’s dreams, Sonny must find the strength to confront the toll urban corrosion has wrought upon the ones he loves.
Named Best First Novel by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, winner of the Minnesota Book Award and compared to the work of James Baldwin and August Wilson, Alexs D. Pate’s highly absorbing debut novel “rings with a truth as immediate as body counts in the headlines, as enduring as a classic tragedy.”—San Francisco Chronicle
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