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And at a capoeira conference, two brothers grapple with how to tell the story of their family, caught in the dance of their painful, fractured history. A pair of college boys on the prowl follow two girls home from a party and have to own the uncomfortable truth of their desires. A teen intent on proving himself a man through the all-night revel of J’Ouvert can’t help but look out for his impressionable younger brother. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION