We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In his debut novel, "Great Black Hope" (to be published June 10 by Simon & Schuster), author Rob Franklin follows a ...

In an author’s note at the end of Rob Franklin’s “Great Black Hope” (S&S/Summit), he informs readers that the novel was influenced in part by his own experience losing a good friend to a drug overdose ...

When asked what it felt like to pen his debut, Great Black Hope, Rob Franklin cites James Baldwin — a writer who had a similar experience, nearly 70 years prior. “His first novel, Go Tell It on the ...

Smith – the protagonist in Great Black Hope – is at a party in the Hamptons when he's arrested for cocaine possession. Smith is a young, Black, queer man of privilege who's floated through New York's ...

Atlanta native Rob Franklin has delivered a dazzling literary debut with his novel “Great Black Hope” (Summit Books, $28.99), a zeitgeisty social commentary on race and class among a rarefied ...

“Great Black Hope,” a promising debut novel by Rob Franklin, opens with its leading man being arrested for cocaine possession. It’s Labor Day weekend in the Hamptons, and Smith wears, “in his mug shot ...

One of Great Black Hope’s earliest images of its protagonist, David Smith (called Smith), is a mug shot. Booked on a possession charge after a cocaine bump in a Hamptons night club, “he’d worn,” Rob ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The opening pages of Rob Franklin’s debut novel, “Great Black Hope,” take readers into the thick of late-night Hamptons debauchery ...

From brilliant new voices to seasoned icons, many of the past year’s breakout works are by Black authors. In June, Great Black Hope, a coming-of-age story reckoning with privilege and belonging, made ...