Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480410886

<DIV><DIV><B>A young fireman battles to provide for his family&mdash;and struggles to avoid the traps of crime and poverty that surround him</B></DIV><DIV><BR /> Darnell Tucker has more to think about than the average twenty-year-old. A resident of impoverished Rio Seco, California, he works part time as the lone black member of the fire department and will soon be a father. Though he loves his job, cutbacks to the state budget force him to search for new work, and the low-paying positions he finds rival firefighting in their peril. On two of the jobs, he&rsquo;s mistaken for a criminal by the police; coming home from another, he&rsquo;s shot at by a gang. His path blocked by economics, institutionalized racism, and the dangers of the place where he lives, how can he provide for his daughter, who has changed his life?&#160;<BR /> &#160;</DIV><DIV><I>Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights</I> is a stark and thoroughly convincing portrait of life on the margins. &#160;</DIV><DIV>&#160;</DIV></DIV><BR />