Juneteenth

A jazz novel, a sermon, and a song of praise to the richness of the African-American experience. From Ralph Ellison, author of the classic novel Invisible Man, comes the long-awaited follow-up. Here is the master of American vernacular – the rhythms of jazz and gospel and ordinary speech – at the height of his powers, telling a powerful, evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century.

“Tell me what happened while there’s still time,” demands the dying Senator Adam Sunr…