A Novel · Forthcoming from Avra Press
The Reflection That Love Left
What does it cost to become what the world accepts—and what remains when the performance ends?
The novel
Malik Carter’s father spent a lifetime building a fortress of silence against a world that left Black men no safe place for softness. When he dies, it comes crumbling down. It will take Malik years to fully understand what it held, and what it cost.
The truth, no longer hidden behind the wall of silence, left Malik suspended between selves, belonging fully to neither the face in the mirror nor the prestigious institutions where he modulates his voice, monitors his volume, and calculates every gesture. Since boyhood he has run the arithmetic of being seen as acceptable, and it has made him what his father was: credentialed, accomplished, a stranger in his own reflection.
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About the author
Tavares Brewington
Tavares Brewington lives and works in Boston. The Reflection That Love Left is Brewington’s first novel.
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Avra Press is an independent literary publisher for voices that have too often been written about instead of heard.
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