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...