The Stubborn Life of Jesse Ed McKinney

by Bill Jones, Jr.

Synopsis

Jesse Edwin McKinney, III was born stubborn, his birth attended to by flybuzzed sweat, by low expectations, and by the hovering burdens of a house too full of accounts too small. Jesse Ed's difficult birth would prove to be Mama's ultimate joy, however, as he, the youngest of her 11 children, is the glue that holds her large family together. As the African American McKinney family begins to scatter in the face of poverty, adversity, and tragedy, only their love and Jesse Ed's stubborn refusal to quit can hold them together. He means to be the glue, and nothing, not even the threat of death, will stop him.

The Stubborn Life of Jesse Ed McKinney is full of laughter, sensuality, surprises, and satire, but it is empty of the stench of racism all too common in historical black fiction. Someone needed to re-write history; Jesse Ed is as good a place as any to start.

Release date: December 13, 2017

Print pages: 140