Eric McKinley is the author of the novel Blessed Sons, the short story collection Intrusion, and his upcoming novel 1991. He is a practicing criminal defense lawyer with an MFA in Creative Writing from Rosemont College. Like a certain sitcom Prince, he was born and raised in West Philadelphia. He now lives outside Philly with his family, two cats, and a dog named Saturday.
When he’s not writing, he’s running, searching for the next great documentary, and an even better scone to go with the perfect iced coffee. If his work is selected and he can drive (or Zoom) there, Eric will visit your book club. Guaranteed.
High school Senior Langston English stumbles through the most pivotal year of his life with a single father, two best friends and two non-girlfriend, girlfriends. With The Cure and A Tribe Called Quest as his soundtrack, he survives inner city West Philadelphia, high school, a cross country road trip to college...
After forty years on the same corner, convenience store owner Saul Keenan is done. His store is closed. He is jailed. The reason: Saul shot and killed Jerrel Walker, an academic and athletic star in their inner city Philadelphia neighborhood. The shooting immediately divides the city along racial and political lines. Charged with murder, Saul's appointed counsel is Jon, a former resident of the same inner city Philadelphia neighborhood. Blessed Sons tells the story of how Jon brings Saul's case to trial, and how racial and political lines often become blurred.
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"The son didn't answer. He poured his father a plastic cup of water from the beige, hospital issued pitcher. He sat them both on the bedside table. He did so knowing that eight ounces of ice water were no match for decades of smoke and bourbon. It was a gesture. And, collecting himself as well as he could, the father was grateful."
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