Losing Absalom
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Alexs D. Pate.
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: African American families -- Fiction; City and town life -- Fiction; Cancer -- Patients -- Fiction; Father and child -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Losing Absalom is the gripping story of one man, one family and one community. Their tale of contemporary tragedy and uncertain triumph is, however, as relevant as tomorrow's headlines. Like many of his generation, Absalom Goodman worked all his life to keep his family together, to create a home where his children would grow up with decent values and a solid future. With his impending death to brain cancer, the family must make their own choices.

Sonny has found success but lost his roots by moving up the corporate ladder; his sister Rainy, still clinging to daydreams of a singing career, has drifted into a relationship with a drug dealer. Losing Absalom brings the Goodmans, along with neighbors and friends, together for a magical and terrible moment - perhaps the most crucial turning point of their lives.