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Shelter lawrence jackson5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() His essays examine a personal, spiritual, and civil history that captures the absurdity of American life. ![]() His neighborhood was largely white, and built on racial covenants. Here he describes his struggle to make a home in the city that had just been convulsed by the uprising that followed the murder of Freddie Gray. When Jackson accepted a new teaching job in Baltimore in 2016, he searched for schools for his son and bought a house.Touching upon such topics as fatherhood, race, and faith, this collection of essays describes the author's struggles in 2016 to make a home in Baltimore, a place that eventually became the foundation for him to explore his personal and spiritual history, as well as the city's untold stories.Baltimore (Md.) - Social conditions - 21st century. ![]()
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