The bestselling, critically acclaimed author of The Space Between
Us and The World We Found deftly explores issues of race, class,
privilege, and power and asks us to consider uncomfortable moral
questions in this probing, ambitious, emotionally wrenching novel
of two families-one black, one white. During a terrible heat wave
in 1991-the worst in a decade-ten-year-old Anton has been locked in
an apartment in the projects, alone, for seven days, without air
conditioning or a fan. With no electricity, the refrigerator and
lights do not work. Hot, hungry, and desperate, Anton shatters a
window and climbs out. Cutting his leg on the broken glass, he is
covered in blood when the police find him. Juanita, his mother, is
discovered in a crack house less than three blocks away, nearly
unconscious and half-naked. When she comes to, she repeatedly asks
for her baby boy. She never meant to leave Anton-she went out for a
quick hit and was headed right back, until her drug dealer raped
her and kept her high. Though the bond between mother and son is
extremely strong, Anton is placed with child services while Juanita
goes to jail. The Harvard-educated son of a US senator, Judge David
Coleman is a scion of northeastern white privilege. Desperate to
have a child in the house again after the tragic death of his
teenage son, David uses his power and connections to keep his new
foster son, Anton, with him and his wife, Delores-actions that will
have devastating consequences in the years to come. Following in
his adopted family's footsteps, Anton, too, rises within the
establishment. But when he discovers the truth about his life, his
birth mother, and his adopted parents, this man of the law must
come to terms with the moral complexities of crimes committed by
the people he loves most.
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