No one sat me down and told me I was a Negro. That was something I figured out on the sly...So begins acclaimed critic and novelist Darryl Pinckney’s debut novel, High Cotton, an elegant and insightfu
Jed—young, gay, black, out of rehab and out of prospects in his hometown of Chicago—flees to the city of his fantasies, a museum of modernism and decadence: Berlin. The paradise that tyranny created,
