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Marshall accepts platonic status when Audrey's relationship with James deepens. But an unplanned pregnancy shuffles their places in each other's lives.
span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12.8px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Audrey's ex wants to undo his decision to part ways, Marshall wants to capitalize on her availability once the time feels right, but before he can James swoops in. As her relationship with James deepens, Marshall is left to accept platonic status. Until a positive pregnancy test result shuffles their places in each other's lives, that is. Marshall /span>span style="font-size: 12.8px; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">is willing to be there for Audrey without judgment, to wait for f | |  | | Patches of Grey
Tony Johnson is a studious young man planning to soon graduate from much more than high school. Although his zip code places him in a Bronx tenement, his sights are set far beyond the trappings of his humble upbringing. Collegiate dreams combined with falling in love with a white classmate put him strongly at odds with his father. Although his brother C.J. s rebellious ways place him directly in the path of danger on gang ruled streets, and the virginal innocence of their sister Tanya is clearly approaching its demise, it is Tony who incurs the majority of Lionel Johnson's wrath for the sins of ambition, daring to be with Janet Mitchell, and refusing to bend to his father's will. Seeing unrealized goals reincarnated in the eyes of his eldest son harshly remind Lionel of what once could have been, and of what went wrong. His own childhood in a segregated southern town established a bitter, prejudiced outlook that is the only legacy he has to pass down to his children. When his job and role as primary breadwinner are lost, Lionel's authority quickly erodes and he drowns his disappointment one drink at a time. This affords Tony, who lacks the seemingly servile patience of his mother, an opportunity to assert his right to become the man he wants to be rather than allowing his fate to be set by chance and circumstance. But throughout the course of Roy Pickering's engrossing debut novel, Tony comes to learn that the world is not as black and white as he and his father's opposing mindsets would suggest.
span class="userReview">span class="reviewText" id="freeTextContainerreview42710328">font color="#382110" size="2">"Pickering's style is fluid and crisp. There's a certain clarity to the prose that's considered and well judged - just enough to paint the picture and more than enough to drive along the narrative." - Khome (UnheardWords.com) /font>br />
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Synopsis: Patches of Grey is a tale of reckless ambition, boundless optimism, ironclad convictions, bitter disillusionment, the complexity of race relations, the confusion of self exploration, naïvet& |
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