Ernest Hill, Author Dafina Books $15 (246p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1312-9
At the start of Hill's compelling fifth novel (after It's All About the Moon When the Sun Ain't Shining), recently widowed Felicia Fontenot, who has returned home to Brownsville, Tenn., to care for her elderly mother, looks out her bedroom window...
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Ernest Hill, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (240p) ISBN 978-0-684-82278-5
D'Ray Reid, the hero of this initially suspenseful but ultimately frustrating coming-of-age novel, undergoes a miraculous transformation and emerges in the end a new man after some crime-filled years. D'Ray is 15 when a local drug dealer threatens...
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Ernest Hill, Author Simon & Schuster $21.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-82259-4
Originally self-published in 1992, Hill's debut novel is a grim, archetypal tale of a young black man who almost averts a squalid fate. Jamie Ray Griffin is among the first students to integrate his local high school in 1970s rural Louisiana--15...
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