Storiesforboys Stories

When fourteen-year-old Kofi Jackson arrives at his family's new forty-three acres of Georgia red clay, he expects another fresh start in a long line of changes. What he doesn't expect is the pull of the land itself - ancient oaks with branches bent like they've survived something, fields that breathe, and a crumbling stone structure half-hidden in the valley that nobody seems willing to explain. In the wake of his parents' divorce, Kofi and his brothers Tariq and little Aziz are starting over with their mother Vonita, a woman who believes that land is freedom and that sometimes the ground beneath your feet carries more history than you're ready to know. But the old tenant house at the edge of the property has been waiting fifty years for someone to come back. And something in it has noticed the Jacksons have arrived.

This is a story about Noah and how he survives through life.