My Father's Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War BOTY_2025 To the rest of the

To the rest of the world

The first novel in the wildly popular #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series

” —David Mitchell

A uniquely absorbing tale of one young woman's turbulent

" In this urgent and visceral work

My Father's Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War BOTY_2025 To the rest of theArmed with only early boyhood memories, Lawrence P. Jackson begins his quest by setting out from his home in Baltimore for Pittsylvania County, Virginia, to try to find his late grandfathers old home by the railroad tracks in Blairs. My Fathers Name tells the tale of the ensuing journey, at once a detective story and a moving historical memoir, uncovering the mixture of anguish and fulfillment that accompanies a venture into the ancestral past,