My Father's Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War BOTY_2025 A uniquely absorbing tale of

A uniquely absorbing tale of one young woman's turbulent

and that’s all that’s ever mattered to her

” —David Mitchell

Max's life is turned upside down when his mom reveals an eons old family secret: he's descended from a long line of Magical Girls tasked with defending humanity from a dark

Welcome to the Deadlands

My Father's Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War BOTY_2025 A uniquely absorbing tale ofArmed with only early boyhood memories, Lawrence P. Jackson begins his quest by setting out from his home in Baltimore for Pittsylvania County, Virginia, to try to find his late grandfathers old home by the railroad tracks in Blairs. My Fathers Name tells the tale of the ensuing journey, at once a detective story and a moving historical memoir, uncovering the mixture of anguish and fulfillment that accompanies a venture into the ancestral past,