New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - The highly praised second novel by the author of the award-winning 'High Cotton,' the story of a young gay black American man living in West Berlin in the years just before the wall came down. Dust jacket comments from Peter Schneider, Edmund White and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 294 pp. ISBN: 978-0374113810.