The Weight

"Julian Strickland is seemingly the lone Black man in the hipster dreamland of Portland, Oregon. To his friends, he's the coolest member of the scene: the soulful drummer from Chicago in an indie rock band that's just about to break through. But to himself, he's a sheltered Christian homeschool kid who used to write book reports on Leviticus. A virgin until the night of his marriage, divorced at twenty-four, he's still in disarray two years later: pretending to fit in, wondering if any of his relationships are real, estranged from his family, and struggling to reconcile his strict religious background. Then he meets Ida Blair, a Black painter at the start of a promising career"--Jacket flap.

About the author

Jeff Boyd is a former public-school teacher from Chicago and a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received the Deena Davidson Friedman Prize for Fiction. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his partner and child.

Product details

• Authors: Jeff Boyd, Jeff Boyd
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9781668007259
• ISBN: 978-1-66800-725-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, FICTION / Literary, Narrative theme: Coming of age, FICTION / African American & Black / General, Relating to African American / Black American people, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general