Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore

by Lawrence Jackson

Book Overview

*A Kirkus Best Book of 2022*
A stirring consideration of homeownership, fatherhood, race, faith, and the history of an American city.

In 2016, Lawrence Jackson accepted a new job in Baltimore, searched for schools for his sons, and bought a house. It would all be unremarkable but for the fact that he had grown up in West Baltimore and now found himself teaching at Johns Hopkins, whose vexed relationship to its neighborhood,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1644450836
• ISBN13: 9781644450833
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.2"