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WINNER OF THE 2024 NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN FICTION AND OF THE 2024 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARD IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CATEGORY. FINALIST OF THE 2024 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR LITERARY FICTION.
James Henry Ferguson doesn’t belong here.
After a highly publicized fall from grace,…
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I enjoy novels that take on universal themes with compelling stories and unforgettable characters. Mr. Jimmy from Around the Way takes us on a journey of a powerful man’s fall from grace and his search for redemption. Frustrated by wounded love in a marriage he thought was perfect, black billionaire James Henry Ferguson commits an act that threatens to destroy all he holds dear. His search takes him away from his rich, comfortable life in Washington, D.C., to an impoverished, racially segregated rural community in Mississippi. There he sinks in depression over what he has lost and whether he can…
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