Book
Shelter : a black tale of Homeland, Baltimore
Publication Information
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2022]
Physical Description
329 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Uniform Title
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.