The Men We Harvest
by L
About This Novel
Within four years, five of the author's relatives and friends died unexpectedly one after another. Their deaths seemed unrelated, but were intertwined by their identity and location. These young black men live in the Deep South, where intergenerational poverty looms over their lives. In remembrance of the past, the author shows how today, more than a century and a half after the end of the Civil War, racism is deeply institutionalized through economic and educational disparities, plaguing generations of black youth. With the warmth of nostalgia mixed with the guilt of the living, the author finally returned to his hometown and wrote down their and his own stories, allowing those fresh faces obscured by cold statistics to resurface.
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