When the Harvest Comes

In this heart-wrenching debut novel, a young Black gay man reckoning with the death of his father must confront his painful past--and his deepest desires around gender, love, and sex. "Epic, intimate, brutal, and tender, Denne Michele Norris has written a breathtaking testimony about the boundlessness of love." --Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies "When the Harvest Comes is a book to sink into, to luxuriate within. . . . It's only when you're finished that you realize that you've never before read a story quite like this one." --Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby "I got tired of running away from what I should've been running toward." The venerated Reverend Doctor John Freeman did not raise his son, Davis, to be touched by any man, let alone a white man. He did not raise his son to whisper that man's name with tenderness. But on the eve of his wedding, all Davis can think about is how beautiful he wants to look when he meets his beloved Everett at the