“There’s cleverness and craft in abundance here. Also, wisdom and even warmth.”

–Kirkus Reviews (Starred)

An odyssey through time in which past and future combine and re-combine to give the arc of a full life, by the “brilliant” (The New Yorker) author of A Different Drummer.

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WILLIAM MELVIN KELLEY

“[A] lost giant of American literature.” —The New Yorker

Born in New York City in 1937 and raised in the Bronx NY, Kelley attended the Fieldston School and Harvard. The author of five novels and a short story collection, he was a writer in residence at the State University of New York at Geneseo and taught at The New School and Sarah Lawrence College. He was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for lifetime achievement and the Dana Reed Prize for creative writing. He died in 2017.

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