Great Expectations: a national US Bestseller

A phenomenal, transfixingwork; Cunningham is a singular, dazzling writer Bryan WashingtonA coming-of-age novel of the richest, most expansive kind, its a rare debut, one that feels both intimate and revelatory Megan AbbottA historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black mans life in the highly anticipated debut novel from one of The New Yorkers rising stars.Id seen the Senator speak a few times before my life got caught up, however distantly, with his, but the first time I can remember paying real attention was when he delivered the speech announcing his run for the Presidency.When David first hears the Senator from Illinois speak, he feels deep ambivalence. Intrigued by the Senators idealistic rhetoric, David also wonders how hell balance the fervent belief and inevitable compromises it will take to become the United Statess first Black president.Great Expectations is about Davids eighteen months working for the Senators presidential campaign. Along the way David meets a myriad of people who raise a set of questions-questions of history, art, race, religion, and fatherhood that force David to look at his own life anew and come to terms with his identity as a young Black man and father in America.Meditating on politics and politicians, religion and preachers, fathers and family, Great Expectations is both an emotionally resonant coming-of-age story and a rich novel of ideas, marking the arrival of a major new writer.