“The Prophets,” by Robert Jones Jr. (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) In Robert Jones Jr.’s “The Prophets,” Samuel and Isaiah are two enslaved men in love on a Deep South plantation. They spend their days caring ...
"The Prophets," by Robert Jones Jr. (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 400 pages, $27) In his debut novel, “The Prophets,” Robert Jones Jr. ambitiously reimagines a past in the antebellum American South and ...
“A long, long time ago, maybe twenty or so years ago, I told myself that even if you have one page about a person eating his lunch you should have a history in your head,” the author Edward P. Jones ...
EXCLUSIVE: The debut novel of Robert Jones, Jr. poetically redefines Black love between two men during a period in history wrought with struggle, abuse and torture The Prophets, which is the debut ...