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Black Deutschland
Black Deutschland: A Novel | Darryl Pinckney
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Jed--young, gay, black, out of rehab and out of prospects in his hometown of Chicago--flees to the city of his fantasies, a museum of modernism and decadence: Berlin. The paradise that tyranny created, the subsidized city isolated behind (…more)
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Bertha_Mason
Black Deutschland: A Novel | Darryl Pinckney

"It doesn't always start with a suitcase. Sometimes things begin with the wrong book. Berlin meant boys, Isherwood said. Fifty years after his adventures among proletarian toughs, Berlin meant white boys who wanted to atone for Germany's crimes by loving a black boy like me."

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shawnmooney
Black Deutschland: A Novel | Darryl Pinckney
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Time magazine says this novel, about an African-American gay man in Germany, is one of the year's best so far.

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TheLittleBookMermaid
Black Deutschland: A Novel | Darryl Pinckney

It's a pretty tough read. Could have helped if it had more dialogues, but it's not such a bad book.

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RebeccaH
Black Deutschland: A Novel | Darryl Pinckney
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My library haul.

jeff Hearing a lot of buzz about Queen of the Night. Good looking haul! 9y
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NationalBook
Black Deutschland: A Novel | Darryl Pinckney
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Eat, Drink & Be Literary with Darryl Pinckney on March 15! Get tickets at bam.org

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GregZimmerman
Black Deutschland: A Novel | Darryl Pinckney
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First line: "It doesn't always start with a suitcase. Sometimes things begin with the wrong book."