Title: Clayton Byrd goes underground
Description: Feeling most alive when he's playing the blues with his grandfather, Clayton is devastated when his grandfather dies and his mother forbids him from playing music, losses that compel him to run away and join bluesmen on the road.
Subjects: Death, Grandparent and child, Bereavement, Fiction, Grandfathers, Blues (Music), African Americans, Family life, Children's fiction, African americans, fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Music, fiction, Death, fiction, Family life, fiction, Grief, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Mothers and sons, fiction, Single-parent families, fiction