Messiahs Richardson Paperback MP–ALB University of Alabama 9781573661904

MessiahsAuthor(s): Marc Anthony Richardson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: Fiction Collective Two\nISBN-13: 9781573661904, 978-1573661904\nSynopsis\nA fiercely ecstatic tale of betrayal and self-sacrifice.\n\nMessiahs centers on two nameless lovers, a woman of east Asian descent and a former state prisoner, a black man who volunteered incarceration on behalf of his falsely convicted nephew, yet was exonerated after more than two years on death row. In this dystopian America, one can assume a relatives capital sentence as an act of holy reformthe proxy initiative, patterned after the Passion.\n\nThe lovers begin their affair by exchanging letters, and after his release, they withdraw to a remote cabin during a torrential winter, haunted by their respective past tragedies. Savagely ostracized by her family for years, the woman is asked by her mother to take the proxy initiative for her brothercreating a conflict she cannot bear to.