I Never Dreamed You’d Leave In Summer

I Never Dreamed You’d Leave In Summer is an epistolary novel telling the story of a young Black student navigating campus politics, community tensions, and his own guilt over his past life as a drug runner. He finds space for atonement working at a beauty salon, but as scandal erupts fate takes a haunting, complex turn that encompasses radical politics, sexism, and racism. Contrasting campus satire with an ode to the working-class culture of a Black beauty shop, I Never Dreamed You’d Leave In Summer presents a complex parable on the question of grace, who needs it, who is scared of it, who runs from it, and who struggles to accept it. Drawing from Native Son, The Stranger, and The Sorrows Of Young Werther, I Never Dreamed You’d Leave In Summer is a protest novel that breaks every rule of protest novels and is a ferocious, irreverent, yet compassionate read.

Author: Robert Lashley
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Robert Lashley
Published: 08/22/2023
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.42d
ISBN: 9798988180906
Language: English

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