num_pages: 304
description: When Gabriel Lynch moves with his mother and brother from a brownstone in Baltimore to a dirt-floor hovel on a homestead in Kansas, he is not pleased. He does not dislike his new stepfather, a former slave, but he has no desire to submit to a life of drudgery and toil on the untamed prairie. So he joins up with a motley crew headed for Texas only to be sucked into an ever-westward wandering replete with a mindless violence he can neither abet nor avoid–a terrifying trek he penitently fears may never allow for a safe return. David Anthony Durham is a genuine talent bent on devastating originality and Gabriel’s Story is as formidable a debut as we have witnessed.
language: English
title: Gabriel's Story
titlecomplete: Gabriel's Story
genres: Historical, Audiobook, Literary Fiction, African American, Novels, Adult, Westerns, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adult Fiction
ratings_count: 258
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: ALA Alex Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
category: Debut Fiction
publisher: Anchor