Somebody's child

by Williams, Dennis A

Somebody's Child is the searing and achingly poignant story of African American brothers and fathers, both a timeless and timely tale of love and alienation. Quincy Crawford and Elliott Davis are brothers who suffered a terrible falling out years before the novel begins when one accepted and the other rejected their stepfather. Their lives have followed different trajectories ever since, but now, when both men are in their mid-twenties, they simultaneously confront the specter of parental responsibility themselves in relationships with women who have been damaged, in various ways, by their own fathers. Quincy, a high-school teacher, finds himself caught between a pregnant girlfriend he does not love, an old friend who suddenly reappears with a painful secret, and a mysterious little boy he believes to be his son. Elliott, his promising college basketball career curtailed by injury, seeks reluctantly to reconcile with a longtime girlfriend who has borne another man's daughter. At the sa