Great Black Hope

‘A beautifully expansive novel about race and class... Franklin's emotional and intellectual range is vast.... An exceptional debut' - Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies

An arrest for cocaine possession in the Hamptons on the last day of a sweltering summer leaves Smith, a young Black queer graduate, in a state of turmoil. Pulled into the court system and mandated treatment, he finds himself in an absurd but dangerous situation: his class protects him but his race does not. It is just wee...