Throwback Thursday, an event hosted by Jenny over at Take Me Away Reading, is a new meme I'll be featuring at least once a month It's the time to recognize those older books… an older book you’ve always wanted to read, or one that you have read and love; maybe one from your childhood; or review an older book -- how about even a classic!
Though he's not as well known as Donald Goines, it's my opinion that if Goines is the father of the original street fiction, Robert Deane Pharr is the uncle of it. Fans of the movie Cotton Comes to Harlem and Goines' work will thoroughly enjoy Giveadamn Brown.