Tag: Jamel Brinkley
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Erin Flanagan Reviews Jamel Brinkley’s Debut Story Collection, A Lucky Man
Absent fathers abound in this debut collection of stories, leaving behind their complicated legacies of race and love. As Eric says in “Everything the Mouth Eats,” “Isn’t it family that, in so many ways, determines our approach to life’s deceptions?” One feels the holes left by these absent fathers on every page, as the characters…