There Will Be No Miracles Here

Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: on New Year's Eve 1999, Casey gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church to witness the rapture. The journey that follows is a beautiful and moving story of a young man learning to question the dreams of success and prosperity that are the foundation of modern America.

Growing up gay in an ordinary black neighbourhood in Dallas, his parents struggling with mental health problems and addiction, Casey finds himself on a remarkable path to a prestigious Ivy League college, to the inner sanctums of power on Wall Street and in Washington DC. But even as he attains everything the American Dream promised him, Casey comes to see that salvation stories like his own are part of the plan to keep others from rising.

Intense, incantatory, shot through with sly humour and quiet fury, There Will Be No Miracles Here is an extraordinary memoir that forces us to judge our society not on those who rise highest, but on those left behind along the way.

Povestea lui Casey Gerald incepe la sfarsitul lumii: in ajunul Anului Nou 1999, Casey se aduna impreuna cu congregatia bisericii evanghelice negre a bunicului sau pentru a asista la rapire. Calatoria care urmeaza este o poveste frumoasa si emotionanta a unui tanar care invata sa puna la indoiala visele de succes si prosperitate care stau la baza Americii moderne. Crescand gay intr-un cartier negru obisnuit din Dallas, parintii sai se lupta cu probleme de sanatate mintala si Dependenta, Casey se afla pe o cale remarcabila catre un prestigios colegiu Ivy League, spre sanctuarele interioare ale puterii de pe Wall Street si din Washington DC.