The release date for the English version of 'Don't Cry for Me' by
Daniel Black is Feb 2022. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
For those who like Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robert Jones Jr., and Alice Walker, this intelligent and insightful story of empathy and forgiveness follows a Black father who, via letters written on his deathbed, makes reconciliation with his homosexual son.
Jacob starts writing a letter to his only son, Isaac, as he lays dying. They haven't seen or communicated for a long time, yet Isaac has to know some things. Narratives tracing his ancestry back to enslavement in rural Arkansas. secrets from Jacob's turbulent relationship with Isaac's mother and the guilt he feels over his family's breakup. Tragedies influenced Jacob's response to Isaac's homosexuality and his duty as a parent.
Above all, however, Jacob has to reveal to Isaac the hidden realities that are held close to his heart. He needs to express the trauma Isaac has inherited. And he has to make room for the two to be at peace.
Renowned author Daniel Black explores the lived realities of Black dads and gay sons with sharp insight and deep empathy, providing an honest and ultimately optimistic picture of reckoning and reconciliation. Don't Cry for Me is a landmark book about a family coping with the harsh edges of love and the surprising places where hope and healing take flight. It is sparse as it is expansive, lyrical as it is compulsively absorbing.