An expansive fiction debut from a major new voice compared to Alice Munro and Toni Morrison. In nine unforgettable stories Jamel Brinkley explores the unseen tenderness of black men and boys: the struggle to love and be loved, the invisible ties of family and friendship, and the inescapable forces of race, class and masculinity. "A Lucky Man" captures the inner lives of men and boys caught between hope and expectation, duty and desire.