A compelling novel of a man brought to reckon with his buried past...
In St. Adrienne, a small black community in Louisiana, Reverend Phillip
Martin--a respected minister and civil rights leader--comes face to face
with the sins of his youth in the person of Robert X, a young, unkempt
stranger who arrives in town for a mysterious "meeting" with the
Reverend.
In the confrontation between the two, the young man's secret burden
explodes into the open, and Phillip Martin begins a long-neglected
journey into his youth to discover how destructive his former life was,
for himself and for those around him.
"...on every page there's an authentic moment, or a dead-right knot of
conversation, or a truer-than-true turn of phrase..."--Kirkus Reviews