In My Father's House, Paperback/Ernest J. Gaines

A compelling novel of a man brought to reckon with his buried past. In St. Adrienne, a small black community in Louisiana, Reverend Phillip Martin a respected minister and civil rights leader comes face to face with the sins of his youth in the person of Robert X, a young, unkempt stranger who arrives in town for a mysterious ``meeting`` with the Reverend. In the confrontation between the two, the young man's secret burden explodes into the open, and Phillip Martin begins a long-neglected journey into his youth to discover how destructive his former life was, for himself and for those around him.