Erasure mythology makes strong the weak /

makes strong the weak / And (wond’rous instinct) Ethiopians speak

in her marriage to her college love Philip

Charlie must learn to navigate those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up

is hired to chaperone a young American

Then there’s Maeve

Erasure mythology makes strong the weak /Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, a first novel by a woman who once visited "some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days." Meanwhile, Monk struggles