num_pages: 576
description: The theme of abandonment in the African-American family is explored in this novel about two cousins, Hatch and Jesus Jones, who are related on bother their fathers' and mothers' sides of the family, as they struggle to come to terms with their family's past. Winner of the 2000 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. A first novel. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Rails Under My Back: A Novel
titlecomplete: Rails Under My Back: A Novel (Harvest Book)
genres: Fiction, American, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, African American
ratings_count: 44
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Harvest Books