Lucas, an African-American high-school senior, would rather play saxophone than deal with his father, his stepmother, religion, or the radical girl set on making him fall in love with her. A first novel....
Randall Roberts, a twelve-year-old African-American boy whose bitterness eventually causes him to murder his obscurely religious father, struggles with his mother's position as a community leader and his sister's involvement with the wrong crowd. 15,...