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05132aam a22005658i 4500 001 471338AA61B211EE96A426B62DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231003010052 008 230428s2023 nyu 000 0aeng 010 $a 2023011990 020 $a 0593241088 020 $a 9780593241080 035 $a (OCoLC)1378936265 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d ORX $d OCLCF $d IHY $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-al 100 1 $a McCaulley, Esau, $e author. 245 10 $a How far to the promised land : $b one Black family's story of hope and survival in the American South / $c Esau McCaulley. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 2309 264 1 $a New York : $b Convergent Books, $c [2023] 300 $a xxii, 210 pages ; $c 22 cm 505 0 $a Introduction: Black narratives and American dreams -- Part I: Absence and presence. The making of a villain ; Single moms aren't allowed to die ; Three inches to the right ; The game is undefeated ; Survival is complicated -- Part II: The vine and fig tree. Sophia's gift ; Running from the South ; There is power in the blood -- Part III: Ordinary glory. If you scared go to church ; Fools fall in love ; Black holidays ; Fathers and sons revisited -- Conclusion: A funeral. 520 $a "From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting intergenerational account of his family's search for meaning and a place to call home in the American South. For much of his life, Esau McCaulley was taught to see himself as an exception: someone who, through hard work, faith, and determination, overcame childhood poverty, anti-Black racism, and an absent father to earn a job as a university professor and a life in the middle class. This account was the one he was conditioned to give, the story America demands from Black survivors. But when tasked with preparing the eulogy at his estranged father's funeral, McCaulley, an ordained minister, was forced to reexamine his past and face the shortcomings of that narrative about his own path to prosperity. No one "escapes" poverty; it marks us. He came to see that people, even those who harmed us, are often more complicated than the roles we create for them in our imagination. The way to the promised land is not a trip from poverty to success, but the journey to finding beauty even in dark places. In searching prose, McCaulley chronicles his lifelong effort to understand the community that shaped him and the struggle they endured to make a home for their loved ones. We meet his great grandmother, Sophia, a tenant farmer born with the gift of prophecy, who scraped together a life in Jim Crow Alabama; his grandparents, the Reverend Theodore and his wife Laura May, who ran a gambling spot in their home, their complex relationship introducing him to the multifaceted nature of love; his mother, Laurie, who survived brain cancer and raised four kids alone in rough-and-tumble Northwest Huntsville; and a cast of cousins, friends, and neighbors who won small victories in a world built to swallow up Black lives. Along the way, McCaulley raises questions that implicate us all: How do we make sense of America's triumphs and misdeeds? What does each person's struggle to build a life, regardless of its outcome, teach us about what it means to be human? Where might God be found in trauma and miracle that is Black life in the American South? Written with profound honesty and compassion, How Far to the Promised Land is a weighty examination of our most pressing societal issues and the hope that keeps us alive"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a McCaulley, Esau $x Childhood and youth. 600 10 $a McCaulley, Esau, $c Sr., $d 1960-2017 $x Family. 600 30 $a McCauley family. 600 37 $a McCauley family. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00212203 650 0 $a African American families $z Alabama $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a African Americans $z Huntsville $z Huntsville $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Poor Black people $z Alabama $v Biography. 650 7 $a African American families $x Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799157 650 7 $a African Americans $x Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799698 650 7 $a Childhood and youth of a person. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01185271 650 7 $a Families. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01728849 650 7 $a Poor Black people. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01202113 651 0 $a Huntsville (Ala.) $v Biography. 651 7 $a Alabama. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204694 651 7 $a Alabama $z Huntsville. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205426 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a McCaulley, Esau. $t How far to the promised land $b First edition. $d New York : Convergent Books, [2023] $z 9780593241097 $w (DLC) 2023011991 941 $a 5 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240125010925.0 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20231206013456.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20231102010520.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20231026011332.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20231003012304.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=471338AA61B211EE96A426B62DECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search