Messiahs, Paperback by Richardson, Marc Anthony, Brand New, Free shipping in ...
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Messiahs, Paperback by Richardson, Marc Anthony, Brand New, Free shipping in .... Messiahs, Paperback by Richardson, Marc Anthony, ISBN 1573661902, ISBN-13 9781573661904, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "Messiahs by Marc Anthony Richardson is a novel that centers on two nameless lovers, a solitary woman of east Asian descent and a former state prisoner, a black man who volunteered incarceration on behalf of his falsely convicted nephew, yet was "exonerated" after two years on death row. In this dystopian America, one can assume a relative's capital sentence as an act of holy reform, the Proxy Initiative, patterned after the Passion. The lovers begin their affair by exchanging love letters, and after hisrelease, they withdraw to a remote cabin during a torrential winter, haunted by their respective past tragedies. Savagely ostracized by her family for years, the woman is asked by her mother to take the Proxy Initiative for her brother-creating a conflict she cannot bear to share with her lover. Guilt, grief, and an otherworldly loyalty all infuse this fiercely ecstatic tale of betrayal and self-sacrifice"--
