'Both lyrical and powerful Grimes' unusual novel is mediation on faith and father-son relationships ... Grimes' commanding metaphors authoritative style and complex characterizations are uniquely compelling.'---Publisher's Weekly starred review<br><br>'The elemental connections and the hope ('You made it / in the end / and so will I') will speak to a wide audience.'---Booklist starred review<br><br>A guy whose father<br>ripped his heart out too.<br>Me and you Ishmael<br>we're brothers<br>two dark sons.<br><br>Betrayed lost and isolated the perspectives of two teenage boys---modern-day Sam and biblical Ishmael---unite over millennia to illustrate the power of forgiveness.