*Edit: https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/10/10/17959504/2018-national-book-award-finalists



Its been getting phenomenal reviews and its available online and in your local book stores. Its done well enough pre-release that the publisher has already ordered a 2nd run.

I'm so happy and proud for him. He's been working on his craft as long as Ive known him, and maybe working harder to get published. Shit is real for POC authors.


Anyhow here is the synopsis:
n 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

Jamel Brinkley’s stories, in a debut that announces the arrival of a significant new voice, reflect the tenderness and vulnerability of black men and boys whose hopes sometimes betray them, especially in a world shaped by race, gender, and class—where luck may be the greatest fiction of all.



Here are a couple or reviews

http://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-brinkley-lucky-man-20180427-htmlstory.html

https://mastersreview.com/book-review-lucky-man-jamel-brinkley/

A full list:
https://www.jamelbrinkley.com/press/