Name: Gabriel's Story

Author: David Anthony Durham
Year: 2001
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Historical fiction, Award winners
Culture: African-American

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ISBNs:
9780385720335
0385720335
When Gabriel Lynch moves with his mother and brother from a brownstone in Baltimore to a dirt-floor hovel on a homestead in Kansas, he is not pleased. He does not dislike his new stepfather, a former slave, but he has no desire to submit to a life of drudgery and toil on the untamed prairie. So he joins up with a motley crew headed for Texas only to be sucked into an ever-westward wandering replete with a mindless violence he can neither abet nor avoid–a terrifying trek he penitently fears may never allow for a safe return. David Anthony Durham is a genuine talent bent on devastating originality
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is as formidable a debut as we have witnessed.
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