Dark sons
By: by Nikki Grimes
Publisher: Jump at the Sun; Turnaround [distributor]
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781423102519
Subjects: Stepbrothers; Fathers and sons; Fiction
Description: Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers.