Gabriel's Story

When Gabriel Lynch moves with his mother and brother from a brownstone in Baltimore to a dirt-floor hovel on a homestead in Kansas, he is not pleased. He does not dislike his new stepfather, a former slave, but he has no desire to submit to a life of drudgery and toil on the untamed prairie. So he joins up with a motley crew headed for Texas only to be sucked into an ever-westward wandering replete with a mindless violence he can neither abet nor avoid-a terrifying trek he penitently fears may never allow for a safe return. David Anthony Durham is a genuine talent bent on devastating originality and Gabriel's Story is as formidable a debut as we have witnessed.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 04/30/2002
ISBN: 9780385720335
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.22w x 0.70d
Award: Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award - Winner

Review Citations: New York Times 05/05/2002 pg. 28

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 69117 / Gabriel's Story
Reading Level: 6.8 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 16