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John Oliver Killens's landmark novel of social protest chronicles
the lives of the Youngblood family and their friends in Crossroads,
Georgia, from the turn of the century to the Great Depression. Its
large cast of powerfully affecting characters includes Joe
Youngblood, a tragic figure of heroic physical strength; Laurie
Lee, his beautiful and strong-willed wife; Richard Myles, a young
high school teacher from New York; and Robby, the Youngbloods' son,
who takes the large risk of becoming involved in the labor
movement.
A major literary event-the eagerly anticipated publication of a
long-lost novel from legendary writer and three-time Pulitzer Prize
nominee John Oliver Killens, hailed as the founding father of the
Black Arts Movement and mentor to celebrated writers, including
Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Arthur Flowers, and Terry McMillan.
Wanderlust has taken Jimmy Jay Leander Johnson on numerous
adventures, from Mississippi to Washington D.C., Vietnam, London
and eventually to Africa, to the fictitious Independent People's
Democratic Republic of Guanaya, where the young musician hopes to
"find himself." But this small sliver of a country in West Africa,
recently freed from British colonial rule, is thrown into turmoil
with the discovery of cobanium-a radioactive mineral 500 times more
powerful than uranium, making it irresistible for greedy
speculators, grifters, and charlatans. Overnight, outsiders descend
upon the sleepy capital city looking for "a piece of the action."
When a plot to assassinate Guanaya's leader is discovered, Jimmy
Jay-a dead ringer for the Prime Minister-is enlisted in a counter
scheme to foil the would-be coup. He will travel to America with
half of Guanaya's cabinet ministers to meet with the President of
the United States and address the UN General Assembly, while the
rest of the cabinet will remain in Guanaya with the real Prime
Minister. What could go wrong? Everything. Set in the 1980s, this
smart, funny, dazzlingly brilliant novel is a literary delight-and
the final gift from an American literary legend.
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