Man Gone Down

On the eve of his thirty-fifth birthday, the unnamed Black narrator of Man Gone Down finds himself broke, estranged from his white wife and three children, and living in the bedroom of a friend's six-year-old child. He has four days to come up with the money to keep his kids in private school and make a down payment on an apartment for them to live in. The novel slips between his childhood in inner-city Boston and his present-day struggle in New York City, exploring a life marked by abuse, abandonment, and alcoholism, ultimately serving as a story of the American Dream gone awry and the complex realities of race and class in America.

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