New York: St Martin's, 2002. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, the story of three generations of an African-American family, by a Euro-American, starting in rural South Carolina and ending in Oakland, California. Winner of the Joseph Henry Jackson Award and nominated for the Pushcart Editor's Prize. Cover praise from Jewell Parker Rhodes who called this 'astonishingly fine'. ISBN: 0-312-283318.