Gabriel's Story: A Novel
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ISBN: 0385720335 / Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, April 2002
Gabriel Lynch, a fifteen-year-old African American boy living in the West of the 1870s, escapes the racial strife of the Reconstruction Era by running away from home to become a cowboy.
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When Gabriel Lynch moves with his mother and brother from a brownstone in Baltimore to a dirt-floor hovel on a homestead in Kansas, he is not pleased. He does not dislike his new stepfather, a former slave, but he has no desire to submit to a life of drudgery and toil on the untamed prairie. So he joins up with a motley crew headed for Texas only to be sucked into an ever-westward wandering replete with a mindless violence he can neither abet nor avoid'a terrifying trek he penitently fears may never allow for a safe return. David Anthony Durham is a genuine talent bent on devastating originality and Gabriel's Story is as formidable a debut as we have witnessed.
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