What transpires is the story of one man, one dog, and how they save each other-in ways they ever could have expected. ( From the publisher.
It is Chance’s unique spirit that helps him escape and puts him in the path of Adam. He’s been born and raised to fight and seldom leaves the dirty basement where he is kept between fights.īut Chance is not a victim or a monster. With piercing insight and profound empathy, acclaimed author Daniel Black illuminates the lived experiences of Black fathers and queer sons, offering an authentic and ultimately hopeful portrait of reckoning and reconciliation. Meanwhile, the Peace family is forced to question everything they thought they knew about gender, sexuality, unconditional love, and fulfillment. His books include The Coming, Perfect Peace and They Tell Me of a Home. It’ll be a little strange at first, but you’ll get used to it, and this’ll be over after while."įrom this point forward, his life becomes a bizarre kaleidoscope of events. Daniel Black is an author and professor of African American studies at Clark Atlanta University. But that ain’t what you was supposed to be. When the seventh child of the Peace family, named Perfect, turns eight, her mother Emma Jean tells her bewildered daughter, "You was born a boy. The heartbreaking portrait of a large, rural southern family’s attempt to grapple with their mother’s desperate decision to make her newborn son into the daughter she will never have.
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