At age nineteen
Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans
and despite being innocent—Marcus is having a harder time re-entering society than anyone expected
the work of PRH extends far beyond the borders of a neighborhood in transition
the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving over 400 people on the premises
You Dreamed of Empires: A Novel Material:Paperback At age nineteenFrom the visionary author of Sudden Death, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story. One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernn Corts entered the city of Tenochtitlan today's Mexico City. Later that day, he would meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures. Corts was accompanied by his nine captains, his troops, and his two translators: Friar Aguilar, a taciturn, former slave, and