How Are You Going to Save Yourself A.L. JACKSON beaming power ballad of a

beaming power ballad of a novel about a love so true it refuses to be forgotten

he finds an atmosphere

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and an insider's eye

from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean

How Are You Going to Save Yourself A.L. JACKSON beaming power ballad of aFour young men struggle to liberate themselves from the burden of being black and male in America in an assured debut "as up to the minute as a Kendrick Lamar track and as ruefully steeped in eternal truths as a Gogol tale" (Kirkus, starred review). Bound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes, four young friends coming of age in the postindustrial enclave of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, struggle to liberate themselves