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A Lucky Man

By: Jamel Brinkley
Narrated by: Korey Jackson
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Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction.

In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past.

An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen intent on proving himself a man through the all-night revel of J'Ouvert can't help but look out for his impressionable younger brother. 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. 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.

Jamel Brinkley's stories, in a debut that announces the arrival of a significant new voice, reflect 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.

©2018 Jamel Brinkley (P)2018 Recorded Books
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he is. he is. i love him. and i want to become a great writer as he is... but i;m lazy

the GOAT of writing

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The characters and the shapes of his stories are literally and literarily marvelous. In awe.

Characters more alive than most ppl you know IRL

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Great collection of stories. Distinct perspective and characters. I felt like I knew each one of them.

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The narrator raspy voice made for good listening. The short stories were interesting and refreshing.

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