From sentence to sentence, these stories are beautifully written, and they are wonderfully moving and smart about the connections-firm, broken, or mended-between siblings, and parents and their children, and couples who profess to love each other. A Lucky Man is full of insight and music-a bold, urgent debut.' -Mia Alvar, author of In the Country As his characters -from estranged siblings in Virginia to surrogate families inBrooklyn-love, hurt, challenge, and sometimes save each other, their stories vividly expose our ideas of masculinity and the fumes of racism and injustice in the American air we breathe. 'Jamel Brinkley writes the kind of fiction that reads like the whole truth. Jamel Brinkley is a writer of extraordinary talent.' -Daniel Alarcón, author of The King is Always Above the People

********** ADVANCE PRAISE: ' A Lucky Man is just one of those collections that takes your breath away: the voices we hear, the people we meet, they scratch and pull and ache and rage, revealing secrets we usually keep hidden. Every line is pitch perfect. A striking and indelible debut, A Lucky Man reflects the tenderness and vulnerability of black men and boys whose hopes sometimes betray them, especially in a world shaped by race, gender, and class-where luck may be the greatest fiction of all. And at a capoeira conference, two brothers grapple with how to tell the story of their family, caught in the dance of their painful, fractured history. A pair of college boys on the prowl follow two girls home from a party and have to own the uncomfortable truth of their desires. A teen intent on proving himself a man at the all-night revel of J’ouvert is preoccupied by watching out for his impressionable younger brother. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his day camp group at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. Jamel Brinkley, with incisive and nuanced prose, explores the charged, complex ties between men whose mistakes threaten their relationships with friends, lovers, and family members. Serpent’s Tail (UK) Kein & Aber (Germany) Elsinore (Portugal) Albin Michel (France) Chai Editora (Argentina) ********** In nine powerful stories set in Brooklyn and the South Bronx, A Lucky Man announces the arrival of a significant new voice in fiction. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Finalist for the 2019 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Fiction Longlisted for the 2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize Best Debut Fiction of 2018 and Best Short Fiction of 2018 (Kirkus Reviews) The #1 Indie Next Pick for May 2018ĪVAILABLE NOW: Graywolf Press IndieBound Bookshop Powell's Barnes & Noble GAINES AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCEįinalist for the 2018 Story Prize Finalist for the 2018 John Leonard Prize for Best First Fiction Finalist for the 2019 PEN/Robert W. FINALIST FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION and WINNER OF THE 2018 ERNEST J.

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