Exit Garden State Faith that is what makes [Himes]

that is what makes [Himes] the bard of the existential African American psyche

Their unlikely friendship soon sharpens into a slow burn of feelings they can't deny

Why is it so hard to find a friend

her dad--distracted by arrangements for his upcoming wedding--either can't remember or has no interest in divulging any details

and studying to be a marine biologist

Exit Garden State Faith that is what makes [Himes]John Hennessy's Exit Garden State never strays far from family life as it ranges from childhood in New Jersey's industrial corridor to mid life in the woods of New England, from Rahway prison's sullen grey dome, Newark's steel flyway, to Lisbon's labyrinths and miradouros, from the smooth volcanic peaks of the Cyclades to his dead in Dublin. Keenly mindful of their ancestors and the immigrations that have brought them here, the speakers of these