Rails under my back
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jeffery Renard Allen.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 563
Subjects: African American families -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Rails Under My Back has at its center two young men at the heart of America, and at the heart of a mysteriously complex family. Hatch and Jesus are doubly cousins - in their parents' generation, two brothers, Lucifer and John Jones, married two sisters, Gracie and Sheila McShan. This novel follows these two young men as they face down danger and try to come to terms with their families' past."--BOOK JACKET.