King Comus: A Novel

Past and present collide in this posthumous, semiautobiographical masterpiece by the author of Beetlecreek.

“One of the great novelists of the last 100 years.” —Ishmael Reed, author of Mumbo Jumbo

In the present day, a Black American expat to Rome named D. reconnects with his former Army friend, Tillman, and their former commanding officer, Joe Stabat, to organize a gospel summit for the singer Little Antioch. In the 1940s, as D. becomes enmeshed in Tillman’s large and boisterous family for t...