Saving Our Sons

“In a sensitive and beautifully written autobiographical testimony, novelist Golden . . . interweaves diary entries with her exploration of what it means to parent a black male adolescent in the turmoil of today’s society. Her understanding is heightened by the fact that for the first decade of his life she raised her son in Nigeria, a country largely free of racism and violence that reveres young males. Golden’s fears and hopes make the problems of crime and violence, racism, and parenting very real. A book whose readership should not be limited to African Americans . . . .” —Library Journal