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, Stepbrothers, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Self-perception, History of Biblical events, Ishmael, African Americans, Novels in verse, Juvenile fiction, Fathers and sons, fiction, African americans, fiction, Self-perception, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Bible, history of biblical events, fiction, Children's fiction
Places: New York (N.Y.)