Family Ties

“A skilled storyteller.” —New York Times Book Review “A writer of great power and psychological depth, creating characters that resonate brilliantly beyond the boundaries of gender and race.” —Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Everyone was shocked when Mr. Henry took teenaged D’Ray Reid under his wing—especially after what happened between D’Ray and Mr. Henry’s own son, Stanley. Yet in the years since, Mr. Henry has tried to show D’Ray how to become the man Stanley would never be. After Mr. Henry’s death, D’Ray seeks out his own mother, Mira, hoping to rebuild their broken relationship. But D’Ray’s homecoming is tumultuous. Arrested for a crime he didn’t commit, his younger brother, Little Man, has escaped and is in hiding. Mira blames D’Ray, but she has her own secrets to hide. And putting things right will mean uncovering a legacy of lies and hidden agendas, and realizing the only way to be free of the past is to stand tall and confront it at last… “Family Ties is an explosive account of a family's separation due to lies, secrets, and favoritism. Faith, forgiveness, and family are the subject matters that make this novel an attention-grabbing story.” —The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers