South End Branch African and African American Authors Hybrid Book Discussion: The Son of Mr. Suleman by Eric Jerome Dickey

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The Son of Mr. Suleman by Eric Jerome Dickey

Professor Pi Suleman is a Black man from Memphis and proud of it. Still, he has to endure a lot as an adjunct professor at the city's prestigious University Along the Nile, a hard-earned career that is crushing his spirit. Pi is constantly forced to bite his tongue in the face of one of his tenured colleague's prejudice and microaggressions while also being blackmailed by a powerful UAN professor who threatens to claim he has assaulted her. He is unable to reveal that she is actually sexually violating him and is trapped in a he-said-she-said with a white woman that, in this society, Pi knows he will never win.

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