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  • Published: 1 February 1994
  • ISBN: 9780679727910
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $39.99

In My Father's House




A compelling novel of a man brought to reckon with his buried past...

In St. Adrienne, a small black community in Louisiana, Reverend Phillip Martin—a respected minister and civil rights leader—comes face to face with the sins of his youth in the person of Robert X, a young, unkempt stranger who arrives in town for a mysterious "meeting" with the Reverend.  

In the confrontation between the two, the young man's secret burden explodes into the open, and Phillip Martin begins a long-neglected journey into his youth to discover how destructive his former life was, for himself and for those around him.

“…on every page there's an authentic moment, or a dead-right knot of conversation, or a truer-than-true turn of phrase…”—Kirkus Reviews

  • Published: 1 February 1994
  • ISBN: 9780679727910
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $39.99

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