Fiction. African American Studies. Part coming-of-age story, part spiritual journey, and part love story, MAKEDA is a universal tale of family, heritage, and the ties that bind. It is about the people who help to shape and mold us, and lead us into the light. Appealing to the deepest sense of who we are, Robinson plumbs the hearts of brothers Makeda and Gray March, and summons our collective blood memories, taking the reader on an unforgettable journey of the soul that will linger long after the last page has been turned. "In Robinson's majestic prose and sweeping historical vision, the tongues of Virginia Woolf, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, and Toni Morrison blend to remind us that we can renew our souls in the eyes of ancestors who return to us in whatever way our lives demand"—Michael Eric Dyson.

Author City: St. Kitts WI

Randall Robinson is the author of An Unbroken Agony and the national best-sellers The Debt, The Reckoning, Quitting America, and Defending the Spirit. In 1984, he established the Free South Africa Movement, which pushed successfully for the imposition of U.S. sanctions against apartheid South Africa; and in 1994, his public advocacy, including a 27-day hunger strike, led to the UN multinational operation that restored Haiti's first democratically elected government to power. Robinson is a professor of law at Penn State Law School and is the creator, coproducer, and host of the public television human rights series World on Trial. He lives with his wife Hazel in St. Kitts, West Indies.

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