The Prodigal Son once & future

The Prodigal Son once & futureReturn to the New York Times bestselling Reverend Curtis Black series by Kimberla Lawson Roby. The Reverend Curtis Black hasn't spoken to his son, Matthew, in over a year not since Matthew dropped out of Harvard to marry his girlfriend, Racquel, and be a full time father to their infant son. Curtis knows that it was he and his wife, Charlotte, who drove Matthew away, but he prays that one day his son will forgive them and come home. Matthew, however,

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from learning how to run a major sports franchise from his father

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a portrait of the artist as a young man in the Seventies

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Dyson explains why the black middle class has joined mainstream America to blame the poor for their troubles

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author Carol Goodman Kaufman offers a compelling investigation of the Jewish community's reaction -- or nonreaction -- to domestic violence