Dark Sons

By Nikki Grimes

Subjects: Fathers and sons, Bible, Novels in verse, Stepbrothers, African Americans, Self-perception, Ishmael, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, History of Biblical events

Description: Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers.