Goodbye, Sweetberry Park: A Novel of City Life, Creeping Gentrification and Flesh-eating Snakes

Archie "God" Johnson-so known for his flowing white hair, voluminous beard, and larger-than-life persona-is a veteran Atlanta journalist of Nigerian and Scots-Irish descent. When his racist White grandfather dies and leaves him a dilapidated Victorian house in the mostly Black neighborhood-a final curse from beyond the grave-Johnson moves to Sweetberry Park. As it happens, his life will never be the same.

Distraught after a personal tragedy and still bleary from a long drug binge he used to ...