They Tell Me of a Home: A Novel

A young Black man makes a reluctant return to his rural southern roots in this "thrilling literary debut . . . [a] haunting story of the ties that bind" (Michael Eric Dyson).

With a doctorate in Black studies, twenty-eight-year-old Tommy Lee Tyson steps off the bus in Swamp Creek, Arkansas, the hometown he left as a teenager, vowing never to return. Yet fate has drawn him back to his rural origins as he seeks to understand himself and the black community that produced him.

His parents are see...