Those Bones Are Not My Child powerfully dramatizes the story of one black family surviving on the margins of a seemingly prosperous city. As she and her estranged husband frantically search for their son, the story moves with authority through the full spectrum of Atlanta's political, social, and cultural life, illuminating the vexing issues of race and class that bedevil the city. Those Bones Are Not My Child explores the complex relationships within one family in dire crisis. The sensational new novel from the hottest voice in African-American fiction. With his third book, Milk in My Coffee, Eric Jerome Dickey climbed the national charts, including the New York Times list, confirming the tremendous promise of his first two bestsellers Sister, Sister and Friends and Lovers.
Cheaters is Dickey's sexy, sassy, and sharp-tongued new novel.
Laced with humor, filled with insight, and brimming with complex, honest emotions, Cheaters is Eric Jerome Dickey's most ambitious and irresistible novel yet. Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison Juneteenth, the Senator said, closing his eyes, his bandaged head resting beneath his hands. Words of Emancipation didn't arrive until the middle of June, so they called it Juneteenth. . . . In Washington, D.C., in the 1950s, Adam Sunraider, a race-baiting senator from a New England state, is mortally wounded by an assassin's bullet while making a speech on the Senate floor. To the shock of all who think they know him, Sunraider calls out from his deathbed for Hickman, an old black minister, to be brought to his side.