Previously published as a Dutton hardcover in April 2021.
Named in USA Today's 5 books not to miss, and New York Post's The
best new books to read
From New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey--named
one of USA Today's 100 Black Novelists and Fiction Authors You
Should Read--comes his final work: an unflinchingly timely novel
about history, hearts, and family.
It's the summer of 2019, and Professor Pi Suleman is a Black man
from Memphis with a lot to endure--not only as a Black man in
Trump's America but in his hard-earned career as an adjunct
professor. Pi is constantly forced to bite his tongue in the face
of one of his tenured colleague's prejudices and
microaggressions. At the same time, he's being blackmailed by a
powerful professor who threatens to cl he has assaulted her,
when in fact the truth is just the site, trapping him in a
he-said-she-said with a white woman that, in this society, Pi
knows he will never win.
When he meets Gemma Buckingham, a sophisticated entrepreneur who
has just moved to Memphis from London to escape a deep
heartbreak, things begin to look up. Though Gemma and Pi hail
from separate cultures, their differences fuel a fiery and
passionate connection that just may consume them both.
But Pi's whirlwind romance is interrupted when his absentee
her, a celebrated writer, passes away and Pi is called to Los
Angeles to both collect his inheritance and learn about the man
who never acknowledged him. With the complicated legacy of his
famous her to make sense of, Gemma's visa expiration date
looming, and the threats of his colleague becoming increasingly
intense, Pi must figure out who he is and what kind of man he
will become in his her's shadow.
In The Son of Mr. Suleman, Eric Jerome Dickey takes readers on a
powerful journey exploring racism, colorism, life as a mixed-race
person, sexual assault, microaggressions, truth and lies,
cultural differences, politics, family legacies, perceptions, the
impact of enslavement and Jim Crow, code-sw, the power of
death, and the weight of love. It is an extraordinary story,
page-turning and intense, and a book only Dickey could write.
Named in USA Today's "5 books not to miss," and New York
Post's "The best new books to read"
From New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey—named
one of USA Today’s 100 Black Novelists and Fiction Authors You
Should Read—comes his final work: an unflinchingly timely novel
about history, hearts, and family.
It’s the summer of 2019, and Professor Pi Suleman is a Black man
from Memphis with a lot to endure—not only as a Black man in
Trump’s America but in his hard-earned career as an adjunct
professor. Pi is constantly forced to bite his tongue in the face
of one of his tenured colleague’s prejudices and
microaggressions. At the same time, he’s being blackmailed by a
powerful professor who threatens to cl he has assaulted her,
when in fact the truth is just the site, trapping him in a
he-said-she-said with a white woman that, in this society, Pi
knows he will never win.
When he meets Gemma Buckingham, a sophisticated entrepreneur who
has just moved to Memphis from London to escape a deep
heartbreak, things begin to look up. Though Gemma and Pi hail
from separate cultures, their differences fuel a fiery and
passionate connection that just may consume them both.
But Pi’s whirlwind romance is interrupted when his absentee
her, a celebrated writer, passes away and Pi is called to Los
Angeles to both collect his inheritance and learn about the man
who never acknowledged him. With the complicated legacy of his
famous her to make sense of, Gemma’s visa expiration date
looming, and the threats of his colleague becoming increasingly
intense, Pi must figure out who he is and what kind of man he
will become in his her’s shadow.
In The Son of Mr. Suleman, Eric Jerome Dickey takes readers on a
powerful journey exploring racism, colorism, life as a mixed-race
person, sexual assault, microaggressions, truth and lies,
cultural differences, politics, family legacies, perceptions, the
impact of enslavement and Jim Crow, code-sw, the power of
death, and the weight of love. It is an extraordinary story,
page-turning and intense, and a book only Dickey could write.