How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

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From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting intergenerational account of his family's search for home and hope "A riveting book that invites you into the personal journey of one of the finest writers alive today."--Beth Moore, New York Times bestselling author of All My Knotted-Up Life A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR For much of his life, Esau McCaulley was taught to see himself as an exception: someone who, through hard work, faith, and determination, overcame childhood poverty, anti-Black racism, and an absent father to earn a job as a university professor and a life in the middle class. But that narrative was called into question one night, when McCaulley answered the phone and learned that his father--whose absence defined his upbringing--died in a car crash. McCaulley was being asked to deliver his father's eulogy, to make sense of his complicated legacy in a country that only accepts Black men on the co

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