The Colored Garden: A Novel

The stories buried in a Kentucky slave cemetery cultivate a boy’s coming of age after his parents separate in this “lovely literary debut” (Library Journal).

“Bennett’s first novel is beautiful and real; impossible to put down until the final page.” —Booklist

After spending his first nine years on a US Army base in Germany, a boy named Sarge is moving with his older sister and mother to his grandparents’ Kentucky farm. It’s a strange new place, and he doesn’t understand why his father isn’t c...