There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir

✍ Scribed by Gerald, Casey

• Book ID: 110495476
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780735214200

✦ Synopsis

**"Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most urgently political, most deeply personal, and most engagingly spiritual statement of our time by just looking outside his window and inside himself. Extraordinary." - Marlon James

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The testament of a boy and a generation who came of age as the world came apart --a generation searching for a new way to live.**
Casey Gerald comes to our fractured times as a uniquely visionary witness whose life has spanned seemingly unbridgeable divides. His story begins at the end of the world: Dallas, New Year's Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church to see which of them will be carried off. His beautiful, fragile mother disappears frequently and mysteriously; for a brief idyll, he and his sister live like Boxcar Children on her disability checks. When Casey--following in the footsteps of his father, a gridiron legend who literally broke his back for the...