The Gospel According to Cane
β Scribed by Courttia Newland
- Publisher
- akashic books
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 139 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
BEVERLEY COTTRELL HAD A DREAM LIFE: a prestigious job, a beautiful husband and baby boy. This is stolen from her one winter afternoon when her son Malakay is kidnapped from a parked car. Despite a media campaign, a full police investigation, and the offer of a reward, Malakay is never found. Beverley's marriage soon dissolves and her husband immigrates from England to the U.S. with a new wife.
BEVERLEY GIVES UP HER JOB, sells the house, and moves from the leafy suburbs to the inner city to reside in a west London housing project. She cocoons herself in grief, growing more isolated with each passing year. After two decades she gives up any hope of finding her son. She teaches children who have been expelled from school in the local community center, bright kids thrown on society's scrap heap.
BEVERLEY STARTS TO BELIEVE she has finally pieced her life together--until a young man starts appearing wherever she goes. Beverley is convinced that...
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