Lanterns in the Dark: Tales From Bottoms Vol. 2

The Bottoms never runs out of stories. It only runs out of people willing to tell them.The lanterns are still burning in Orange Mound, and in Lanterns in the Dark: Tales From the Bottoms, Volume 2, bestselling author Angelo P. Hopson returns to the streets, homes, churches, classrooms, back rooms, and forgotten corners of a community where the past is never truly buried and no life exists entirely on its own.This time, five lives take center stage. A girl with fury in her fists discovers that fighting and becoming a fighter are two very different things. A poor sharecropper's son learns that survival can lead a good man down roads he never imagined traveling. A woman spends years chasing the finer things in life before discovering what was valuable all along. A preacher's son, cast out by the very people who taught him about God, finds family in the most unlikely places. And a young man born from revolution inherits a question that has haunted generations before him: What do you do when changing the world requires more than believing it should change?Their stories unfold across different generations, but the distance between them is smaller than it seems. In Orange Mound, one person's ending can become another person's beginning. A decision made decades ago can echo through generations. The forgotten can shape the celebrated, and sometimes the people standing in the margins of someone else's story have been carrying stories of their own all along.Lanterns in the Dark: Tales From the Bottoms, Volume 2 is an interconnected exploration of family, poverty, ambition, faith, violence, identity, revolution, second chances, and the complicated ways people become who they are. These are stories about what we inherit, what we survive, what we become, and what we leave behind for those who come after us.You have walked these streets before, but you don't know everybody who walked them.