5/24/2023 0 Comments Going down home with daddy![]() ![]() Momma encourages Lil Alan to sleep, but he can’t, worrying that he’s the only one who won’t have a suitable gift for the extended family’s anniversary celebration of “75 years of owning the land, purchased by a farmer and a teacher.” After they greet Granny and hug the relatives, Lil Alan sees his cousins preparing a song (“His Eye Is on the Sparrow”), a poem (Langston Hughes’s “Mother to Son”), or something handmade, for the celebration. During the drive, the protagonist, Lil Alan, a boy with brown skin, full lips, a flat-top haircut, glasses, and deep brown eyes, looks sleepily out at the reader while Sis sleeps with her head leaned back against the seat. Going Down Home with Daddy's back cover boldly announces, “Nothing is more important than family.” It's a palpable sentiment throughout the story.Ī Black family of four wakes before dawn to pack the car for a trip “down home” to Daddy’s family reunion, an event they surely attend regularly. ![]()
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