![]() ![]() Bull has bought into a system that’s rigged to keep him down it’s easy for the boys to mock him for that, but what choice did he have? ![]() The story circles around the idea of Black masculinity and the ways in which these boys and men embody it, but also the ways in which that idea is imposed on them from outside. ![]() Unfortunately, I always felt that their radiance didn’t shine in that story, the way it always has to me. I had another story, published in my collection “ How Are You Going to Save Yourself,” where their likenesses were used to create the characters. The three cousins I’m closest to are named Israel, Isaac, and Abraham. This one happened to have a little of all three. Most of my stuff starts with some kernels of truth-either character-wise or place-wise or event-wise, because sadly I’m really not that creative. How did the idea for the story come to you? In your story “ Children of the Good Book,” a boy goes to stay with his aunt, uncle, and three cousins in Washington State, and becomes involved in their troubled family dynamic. ![]()
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