Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights A Novel |
|
| Author:
| Straight, Susan |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4804-1088-6 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
| Publisher: | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
|
| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $9.99 |
Book Description:
|
A young fireman battles to provide for his family--and struggles to avoid the traps of crime and poverty that surround him Darnell Tucker has more to think about than the average twenty-year-old. A resident of impoverished Rio Seco, California, he works part time as the lone black member of the fire department and will soon be a father. Though he loves his job, cutbacks to the state budget force him to search for new work, and the low-paying...
More Description A young fireman battles to provide for his family--and struggles to avoid the traps of crime and poverty that surround him
Darnell Tucker has more to think about than the average twenty-year-old. A resident of impoverished Rio Seco, California, he works part time as the lone black member of the fire department and will soon be a father. Though he loves his job, cutbacks to the state budget force him to search for new work, and the low-paying positions he finds rival firefighting in their peril. On two of the jobs, he's mistaken for a criminal by the police; coming home from another, he's shot at by a gang. His path blocked by economics, institutionalized racism, and the dangers of the place where he lives, how can he provide for his daughter, who has changed his life?
Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights is a stark and thoroughly convincing portrait of life on the margins.