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A sweeping, eerily resonant epic of competition and violence in the Jim Crow South: a lyrical and emotionally disastrous masterpiece from Charlie Smith, whom the New York Public Library has said "may be America's most bewitching stylist alive". Delvin Walker is just a youngster when his mom flees their home in debt Row portion of Chattanooga, accused of killing a white man. Taken in by Cornelius Oliver, proprietor of the town's leading Negro funeral home, he discovers the art work of caring for the aggrieved, the promise of transcendence in the written word, and a unusual serenity in a hostile world. Yet tragedy goes to them near daily, and after some devastating events - a lynching, a cathedral using up - Delvin anxieties being accused of murdering an area white youngster and leaves town. Haunted by his mother's disappearance, Delvin trips the rails, matches fellow travelers, comes in love, and views an America slipping into the Great Major depression. But before his expectations forever and love can be recognized, he and several other teenagers are falsely charged with the rape of two white women, and they are shackled to something of enslavement masquerading as justice. As he is pushed deeper into the darkness of imprisonment, his fix to escape burns only more brightly, until, in a last spasm of airline flight, in a white heating of terror, he is called to choose his fate. In vocabulary both romantic and lyrical, novelist and poet Charlie Smith conjures a brand new and complex portrait of the South of the 1920s and '30s in every its brutal humanity - and the amazing endurance of 1 battered young man, his awareness "an accumulation of breached and disordered living...expectations packed hard into sprung joints", who lives earlier and through it all.
