cover image Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights

Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights

Susan Straight. Anchor Books, $17 (400pp) ISBN 978-0-385-47434-4

A young man in East L.A. tries to carve out a place for his family and find a sense of self in this novel by the author of I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots. (July)