Title: Dark Sons
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.
Subjects: Bible, Juvenile fiction, Stepbrothers, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Self-perception, History of Biblical events, Novels in verse, African Americans, Ishmael
Places: New York (N.Y.)
People: Sam, Ishmael