If Sons, Then Heirs Exhibitions Jeanine Hays and Bryan Mason

Jeanine Hays and Bryan Mason invite you into the intimate spaces of actors and musicians

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner A New York Times Notable Book Best Book of the Year for The Washington Post* The New Yorker * Time * The Atlantic * Los Angeles Times * NPR * Harper's Bazaar * Vulture * Town & Country * San Francisco Chronicle * Christian Science Monitor * Mother Jones * Barack Obama A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick "Impossible to put down

warm story that celebrates the precious bond between parent and child

he spirals into heartbreak for the first time and must confront a world still struggling to understand polyamorous relationships

she might have had if the girls had never been born

If Sons, Then Heirs Exhibitions Jeanine Hays and Bryan Mason"An absorbing and moving tale" (Publishers Weekly) a uniquely American story of the consequences of past decisions on present realities through the narrative of a Black family in Philadelphia rediscovering their roots in South Carolina. After World War II, the Needham family moved north to Philadelphia from South Carolina, leaving behind the tragic injustice surrounding the violent death of their patriarch, King. His devoted widow, Selma, remains on