A racially charged killing in upstate New York in 1963 provides the backdrop to GOD'S NAME ISN'T GOD, an intense and thought-provoking novel that chronicles the twists and turns of American life in the latter part of the 20th century. Joe Goodman, a mixed-race kid coming of age in a Buffalo suburb in the 1970s, is between worlds and parents: his volatile Jewish father embodies dynamic defiance, while his gentle African-American mother counsels Quaker quietism and passive resistance to racial and societal injustice. Young Goodman, a sensitive introspective boy, experiences the pain of brutal...
A racially charged killing in upstate New York in 1963 provides the backdrop to GOD'S NAME ISN'T GOD, an intense and thought-provoking novel that chro...
