A Peculiar Legacy

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The silence of a spiritual community is shattered by the murder of one of their own.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jordan and Rahman Gaffney-Bruce newly married men move into the eccentric Washington neighborhood known as Slope to start building a life together. Built precariously on a hill Slope is home to descendants of the Great Migration and is now a lower middle class Black community trapped in a cycle of spiritual depression.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the midst of this community the Gaffney Bruces gather with the other residents every Sunday in quiet prayer and contemplation in hopes that their collective dreams will be realized: To be seen. To be known. To thrive-on their own terms.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Alongside them is Pops the quiet old man who has seen it all; Miss Sandra the matriarch and maven of Sunday dinners; Royce one of the few good cops left; and the Gang of Four-soft-spoken Peek angry Korey flamboyant Ziggy and Gino the natural leader.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When one of the youths is felled by gun violence generations-old secrets threaten to unravel the serenity of this peculiar community.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>A Peculiar Legacy:</em></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Novel by Rashid Darden</span></p><p></p>