Five-Carat Soul

By: James McBride

Fiction

the stories in five-carat soul--none of them ever published before--spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. mcbride explores the ways we learn from the world and the people around us. an antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by civil war general robert e. lee now sits in the home of a black minister in queens. five strangers find themselves...