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Book

Shelter : a black tale of Homeland, Baltimore

Call Number

  • 921 J13415 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2022]

Physical Description

329 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Uniform Title

Essays. Selections

Summary

Touching upon such topics as fatherhood, race, and faith, this collection of essays describes the author's struggles in 2016 to make a home in Baltimore, a place that eventually became the foundation for him to explore his personal and spiritual history, as well as the city's untold stories.

Contents

  • Advent: color storms rising almost to a hurricane
  • Christmas: long quarter at River Bend
  • Epiphany: Sunday boys
  • Lent: appraisement of negroes at the folly, or dinner
  • Eostre in Lafayette Square
  • White Sunday: "an invasion of African negroes
  • Ordinary time: the gentle brushing fescue.

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