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Date Posted: 06:56:24 02/03/06 Fri
Author: Kenji Jasper
Subject: The House on Childress Street

Hello. My name is Kenji Jasper. You may have seen me featured in this week's USA Today. I am a three-time novelist who has written for NPR, the Village Voic, VIBE and the Chicago Sun-Times just to name a few. Here's the summary for my latest book, a "real" memoir:

The House on Childress Street
Novelist Kenji Jasper only knew his maternal grandfather, Jesse Langley Sr., as a quiet man who smoked too many cigarettes, drank too much liquor and quoted the Bible like it was the only book he'd ever laid eyes on. His children rarely hugged him and he and his near 60s years of marriage seemed cold and complicated. But when the man passed away in late 2002, Jasper began a long and life-changing journey to learn more about the man he barely knew. From the streets of his native Washington, DC to locales nationwide, his journey to ask the unanswered leads him to both intimate friends, complete strangers, places he never thought of, and eventually towards the mirror to look back at himself. The House on Childress Street is a look at life, love and survival through the eyes of one little family, on one little block that somehow manages to speak for us all.

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