Goliath: A Novel

In the early days of the Great Migration as Black Americans go northward, one man goes the opposite way: he returns to Mississippi to reclaim his father's land.

"The beautiful, brutal landscape, the love, the evil, the joys and the sorrows of one family left me feeling I had just lived a second life." —ABRAHAM VERGHESE, author of The Covenant of Water

In 1910, at the tender age of fourteen, a young Black man named David Jeremiah Lightfoot inherits his father's farm in Mississippi, a barren...