num_pages: 272
description: Randall Kenan's daring and innovative first novel weaves a vivid and horrific tale through the generations of a black Southern family.Sixteen-year old Horace Cross is plagued by issues that hover in his impressionable spirit and take shape in his mind as loathsome demons, culminating in one night of horrible and tragic transformation. In the face of Horace's fate, his cousin Reverend James "Jimmy" Green questions the values of a community that nourishes a boy, places their hopes for salvation on him, only to deny him his destiny. Told in a montage of voices and memories, A Visitation of the Spirits just how richly populated a family's present is with the spirits of the past and the future.
language: English
title: A Visitation of Spirits
titlecomplete: A Visitation of Spirits
genres: LGBT, African American Literature, Adult Fiction, Queer, Gay, Novels, Horror, Fantasy, African American, Fiction
ratings_count: 733
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Debut Fiction
publisher: Vintage