CultureGreat Black Hope: Pursuit of belonging ‘becomes a kind of cancer that eats them from the inside out’
Award-winning author Rob Franklin discusses his acclaimed debut novel, Great Black Hope. Centred on David Smith, a young Black man from a Southern bourgeois family, the book examines how race and class shape intimate relationships, while respectability politics and the pressure to perform an acceptable self exact a psychological cost.
Great Black Hope: Pursuit of belonging ‘becomes a kind of cancer that eats them from the inside out’
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