Before I Forget: A Novel

"An unsettling, compelling first novel about secrets, illness, and the role of African-American men in society and family life." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)

This powerful novel of three generations of black men bound by blood-and by histories of mutual love, fear, and frustration-gives Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Leonard Pitts the opportunity to explore the painful truths of black men's lives, especially as they play out in the fraught relations of fathers and sons. As fifty-yea...