Publisher's Synopsis
Teenage Sam can barely contain his fury and hurt when his father gets married again, this time to a young white woman who gives Sam a new baby brother. In a parallel first-person narrative that draws on Genesis, young Ishmael and his mother, Hagar, rejected by Abraham, wander in the desert after Sarah bears Abraham's child. Grimes clear, free verse speaks with immediacy and lyricism about both boys' feelings of betrayal and loss.' - Booklist, starred review A 2006 Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book.'
