54 Miles: A Novel

Young Adam, who has been raised in Harlem by his white father, George, and Black mother, Thelma, goes back to his parents' home state of Alabama to participate in the voting rights campaign, only to be brutalized in the Bloody Sunday melee. He is still recovering from this when he is struck a heavy emotional blow, learning for the first time-and in the cruelest way imaginable-of a family secret that sends him spiraling and plunging further into danger. To save him, and any hope for their re...