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A writer of exceptional gifts and grace. Joyce Carol Oates 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, hes mistaken for a criminal by the police; coming home from another, hes 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.
finishing Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger + a novel sent by a Dominican girlfriend + love for Michael Pollan and the gift of nurturing food and Mother Nature + Women‘s History Month and direct female oppression = this week‘s reads💝
Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights: A Novel | 
