About the Book:

'Get your black ugly ass up outta that bed!'

That's how his mother had woken him every morning. 'Get your black ugly ass up outta that bed!'

Later, the adjectives multiplied. Tar baby. Faggot. Queer. Tar baby faggot queer. And still later, when he'd started to achieve, started to make friends with white guys

About the Author:

Bronx-born wordsmith, Larry Benjamin considers himself less a writer than an artist whose chosen medium is the written word rather than clay or paint or bronze. He is the author of three previous novels: The Sun, The Earth & The Moon, In His Eyes, and Unbroken. He is also the author of the allegorical novella Vampire Rising. He lives in Philadelphia with his husband and two rescue dogs named Atticus and Gatsby.... Read More

Other Publications by Larry Benjamin:

• Excellent Sons: A Love Story in Three Acts
• The Sun, the Earth & the Moon
• In His Eyes
• Vampire Rising
• The Christmas Present
• Boughs of Evergreen: A Holiday Anthology
• Unbroken
• Damaged Angels