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ISBN: 125077280X

Selected by Nicole Sealey as the winner of the 2025 APR/Honickman First Book Prize

Minor Black Figures: A Novel Binding:Hardcover and Bubbles" is an amazinglyA bold novel about a black painter caught up in the currents of art, faith, and desire. New York simmers with heat and unrest as Wyeth, a painter, finds himself at an impasse in his own work. After attending a dubious show put on by a collective of careerist artists, he retreats to a bar in the West Village where he meets Keating, a former seminarian. Over the long summer, as the two get to know each another, they talk and argue about God, sex, and