A House Is Not a Home: A B-Boy Blues Novel

Authors: Hardy, James Earl
Publisher: Amistad
BISAC/Subject: FIC000000
ISBN: 9780062284471, Related ISBNs: 0062284479, 9780060936600, 9780062284471
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 240,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

In this final chapter in James Earl Hardy's groundbreaking B-Boy Blues series, Mitchell "Little Bit" Crawford and Raheim "Pooquie" Rivers are all grown up. Mitchell is a stay-at-home dad renovating his dream house, writing, and raising his godson and half-sister in Brooklyn's up-and-coming Fort Greene neighborhood. He's fairly happy, but he can't help feeling that something -- or someone -- is missing from his life.

Fresh from rehab for a gambling addiction, Raheim has a new lease on life, but it's precarious -- his career as an actor has stalled, he hasn't seen his son in years, and the short-lived sexual trysts that punctuated his life no longer satisfy him. Hell-bent on change, Raheim has finally figured out who he wants to be with forever. But will Mitchell give Raheim the second chance he so desperately wants?

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