In Kenan\'s fictional territory of Tims Creek, North Carolina, an old man rages in his nursing home, a parson beats up an adulterer, a rich man is haunted by a hog, and an elderly woman turns unwitting miracle worker.
Kenan\'s prose is nothing short of wondrous..
If I Had Two Wings is a rich chorus of voices and visions, dreams and prophecies, marked by physicality and spirit.
Shot through with humor and seasoned by inventiveness and maturity, Kenan riffs on appetites of all kinds, on the eerie persistence of history, and on unstoppable lovers and unexpected salvations.
Howard Hughes seeks out the woman who once cooked him butter beans.
An architect who lost his famous lover to AIDS reconnects with a high-school fling.
A retired plumber travels to Manhattan, where Billy Idol sweeps him into his entourage.
In Kenan\'s fictional territory of Tims Creek, North Carolina, an old man rages in his nursing home, a parson beats up an adulterer, a rich man is haunted by a hog, and an elderly woman turns unwitting miracle worker
