Vengeance: A Novel

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Vengeance: A Novel

â€œTense and evocative . . . . Despite its powerful social critique, Vengeance is cautious and prismatic, openly troubled by its own claims to authority.â€ â€”Katy Waldman, The New Yorker

As the narrator attempts to sort out what happened in Kingâ€™s lifeâ€”paying visits to his devoted mother, his estranged young daughter and her mother, his girlfriend, his brother, and his cousinâ€”the writerâ€™s own sense of identity begins to feel more and more like a fiction. He is one of the â€œfree peopleâ€ while Kendrick, who studies theology and philosophy, will never get his only wish, expressed plainly as â€œI just need to get out of here.â€ The dichotomy between their lives forces the narrator to confront the violence in his own past, and also to reexamine American notions of guilt and penance, racial bias, and the inherent perversity of punitive justice.

It is common knowledge that we have an incarceration crisis in our country. Vengeance, by way of vivid storytelling, helps us to understand the failure of empathy and imagination that causes it.

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