Sons of the Same Morning

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['Two brothers begin with the same childhood and are carried toward profoundly different lives. Separation, enslavement and calculated misinformation turn family memory into a contested story: what one is taught about the other may be as destructive as the original violence. Both must build a life while people with power seek to profit from their labor, their skills and their distrust.', "Sons of the Same Morning moves between Africa and America to follow parallel struggles for survival, recognition and agency. It is a novel about theft in more than one form: the theft of time, the theft of work, the theft of inventions and the theft of a person's account of their own family. The machinery of exploitation is sustained not only by force, but by paperwork, ideology and the insistence that those harmed should accept the story told by those benefiting.", 'Yet the brothers are not simply symbols of loss. Their contrasting ways of speaking, thinking and responding to danger create two distinct lives with their own ambitions. The emotional charge lies in whether they can recognize what has been done to them before the mistrust cultivated between them becomes irreversible.', "Readers drawn to historical family sagas, suspense and stories of resistance will find a narrative that foregrounds its characters' choices while asking who gains when separated people are persuaded to blame one another."]

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