Book review: ‘The Prophets’ reimagines lives of enslaved people with epic love story between two men
Sat., Jan. 9, 2021
In his debut novel, “The Prophets,” Robert Jones Jr. ambitiously reimagines a past in the antebellum American South and pre-colonial Africa in which Black queer lives are foregrounded. At the center of “The Prophets” is a love story between two enslaved men, Samuel and Isaiah.