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The Fantasies of Future Things - by Doug Jones (Paperback)

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  • In this "gorgeously compassionate" (Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling author of An American Marriage) debut reminiscent of Barry Jenkins's Moonlight, two men in Atlanta reconcile their human dignity against the price of their professional ambitions working for a real estate development company displacing Black residents in preparation for the 1996 Olympics.Daily interactions between Jacob and Daniel are a powder keg of sexual tension and uncertainty.
  • About the Author: Douglas E. Jones graduated from Morehouse College and received an MFA from Columbia University.
  • 288 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres,

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In this "gorgeously compassionate" (Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling author of An American Marriage) debut reminiscent of Barry Jenkins's Moonlight, two men in Atlanta reconcile their human dignity against the price of their professional ambitions working for a real estate development company displacing Black residents in preparation for the 1996 Olympics.Daily interactions between Jacob and Daniel are a powder keg of sexual tension and uncertainty. A recent Morehouse graduate and Brooklyn transplant, Jacob fears that accepting the truth of his sexuality will disappoint the hopes his parents have for him to lead a respectable life. Grieving the death of his mother while searching for answers about a father he has never known, Daniel, an Atlanta native, has resigned himself to the reality that men who love men don't have happy endings. When Jacob meets Sherman, a social worker fighting for one of the families being displaced by the project, he must decide if rejecting security is worth the risk of embracing the unknown. In the midst of navigating his grief, and volatile relationship with Jacob, Daniel learns of his father's identity. Though meeting his father could provide Daniel with the closure he has always sought, the distance between what Daniel wants and what he's willing to do for it remains a question only he can answer.



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Douglas E. Jones graduated from Morehouse College and received an MFA from Columbia University. In 2007, he was an inaugural Lambda Literary Fellow at American Jewish University, where he studied with Dorothy Allison. His nonfiction has been included in the anthology Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature & Art and his poetry has been published in Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS. Doug is a full-time, licensed real estate agent in Brooklyn, New York, and Atlanta, Georgia. He lives in Atlanta. The Fantasies of Future Things is his debut novel.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.38 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .72 Inches (D)
Weight: .66 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 288
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Doug Jones
Language: English
Street Date: June 30, 2026
TCIN: 1004221037
UPC: 9781668016299
Item Number (DPCI): 247-36-7439
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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