Bøger udgivet af Isaiah Books

Monkey Bread retraces the trajectory of a man who tries to come to terms with his past. Chris James was born in Dakar, Senegal. Abandoned by his mother at the age of 4, he is abused by priests running an orphanage until he is rescued, through adoption, by an American diplomat named Vernon. Chris, angry and withdrawn as a child, becomes an adult with a skewed sense of values and a darkened vision of the world. After Vernon's death, Chris returns to Senegal in the hope of finding his mother and solving the mystery shrouding his childhood. After setting up a detective agency, he is hired by a shadowy businessman named Ibrahim Sow to help solve the kidnapping of his son, Zak. In their desperate quest, Chris and Ibrahim unleash an unprecedented level of violence on the sun-baked city streets. The case strikes a deep chord in Chris. It is an opportunity to let loose, and then confront, his inner demons. It also provides him with insights into a society and a culture that, though his own by birth, remain largely alien. The challenges Chris faces mirror those burdening Senegal, a country beautiful by the grace of nature and blessed with a profoundly humane people, yet mired in poverty, corruption, and political strife.

Shine Eye Girl chronicles a tightrope walk. Sally Harris is coming of age in one of Washington, D.C.'s most forlorn neighborhoods. Daughter, sister, mother-to-be, she falls for a Somali immigrant named Mo. Together they break bread, get down, get grown, get ahead. The world takes aim and shoots. It's the pitfalls of ghetto life. It's the confusion of green love in the age of deceit. It's blood ties. It's the eerie sound of dreams crashing back to the ground. Time takes no sides. Treasures found are treasures lost. Humor often comes up short. Loyalties call. Tightrope walkers fall. Barely, tenuously, stubbornly, hope shines through.

Better Will Come follows two brothers, Jay and Joe Wilson, on a quixotic quest to abolish racism and make up for the sins of slavery, segregation, and discrimination. Fueled by very different motivations, their self-appointed mission to bring justice and pecuniary compensation to millions of African Americans takes them from a Washington, D.C. storefront church to the forefront of a boutique, modern-day civil rights movement. The "Retribution Brothers," as Jay and Joe become known, use cutting-edge, if not laudable, methods to raise funds, foster mass awareness, and bring about social change. Jay and Joe are embraced by the street and the white middle class, from which they stem. Visionaries or plain heroes, the Retribution Brothers make history by transcending the very notion of race. Along the way they find love, faith, fame, fortune, and redemption. What they lose, they lose forever.