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Losing Absalom
''Losing Absalom'' is the 1994 debut novel by Alexs Pate.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=482 )〕 The book was first published on April 1, 1994 through Coffee House Press and follows an African-American family's life and daily struggles in a North Philadelphia inner city.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1107803 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pbs.org/ktca/litandlife/resources/pate.html )〕
== Plot ==
In the novel, Absalom Goodman is dying from brain cancer in the hospital where his thoughts drift in and out of the past and present and to his two grown children's lives. Absalom's difficult relationship with his father led him to strive for his children to know gentleness, hard work, and respect but he worries that they have lost sight of these values. His son, Sonny, has moved far away from home and works in white corporate America while his daughter, Rainy, still lives in the family's first home with her boyfriend, aspiring to become a singer and helping her boyfriend deal drugs meanwhile. The novel is the story of this family and their hope in the midst of struggles.
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