Goliath: A Novel

A fateful feud simmers between a preacher and his protégé in this luminous retelling of the story of David and Goliath, set on a family farm in the American South and against the backdrop of the Great Migration. Goliath will win hearts with its tenderness and thunderous power.

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, cursed plot of land once known as Goliath. David has never lived outside Ch...