Trouble the water /

A Black professor returns home to face the demons of his past. Twenty years after running away from home in Pee Dee, North Carolina, Jordan Henry believed he had found success, as a young college professor of history, a married man, and a resident of New England, whose colonial past he knew so well....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dixon, Melvin, 1950-1992 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder : University of Colorado : Fiction Collective Two, 1989.
Edition:First edition.
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