John Woman

The New York Times bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins novels delivers "a taut, riveting, and artfully edgy saga" of one man's self-transformation (Kirkus).

At twelve years old, Cornelius Jones, the son of an Italian-American woman and a black man from Mississippi, secretly takes over his father's job at a silent film theater in New York's East Village—until the innocent scheme goes tragically wrong. Years later, his dying father imparts this piece of wisdom to Cornelius: The person who ...