Our hapless main character here is a young, white, working-class Southerner named D'aron Davenport. The premise alone of Welcome to Braggsville hints at its energy and audaciousness. It's an ambitious book that not only wants to say something big about America, but aims to do so in a big American voice that contains multitudes. Johnson's timely novel is a tipsy social satire about race and the oh-so-fragile ties that bind disparate parts of this country into an imperfect and restless union. Mencken, Don DeLillo, David Foster Wallace, Norman Mailer and Ralph Ellison, Ralph Ellison, Ralph Ellison. Geronimo Johnson's new novel, Welcome to Braggsville: Tom Wolfe, Mark Twain, Toni Morrison, H.L. Here's only a partial list of great American writers whose names came to mind as I was reading T. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Welcome to Braggsville Author T.
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