After several years of silence and seclusion in Beetlecreek’s black quarter, a carnival worker named Bill Trapp befriends Johnny Johnson, a Pittsburgh teenage

African-American authors have consistently explored the political dimensions of literature and its ability to affect social change. African-American literature

An imaginative and experimental story of friendship and conflict in times of racial strife.

A novel in which there is candid treatment of desperate isolation in a small town's black quarter.

An exploration of writers who examine integration through the charged lens of sexuality