PATCHES OF GREY: A Novel by Roy L. Pickering Jr.

Studious young Tony Johnson, from a Bronx tenement is graduating from much more than high school and he has grand aspirations to rise far beyond his humble upbringing.  But things are seldom so simple in the real world and never so easy in the literary world of a literature book like Patches of Grey.

Patches of Grey by Roy L. Pickering Jr.

Tony’s collegiate dreams and his falling in love with a white classmate swiftly put him strongly at odds with his father. Despite other angst in the Johnson family, like his brother C.J. on gang ruled streets, and his sister Tanya taking chances with her chastity, Tony receives the lion’s share of Lionel Johnson’s wrath for his having ambition, daring to be with Janet Mitchell, and refusing to bend to his father’s will. Who from his grey past in segregated southern town, has a bitter, prejudiced outlook and he see his unrealized goals reincarnated in the eyes of his eldest son.

This literature book follows a tumultuous year, during which Lionel loses both his job and the role as primary breadwinner.  The father’s authority erodes and he drowns his disappointment in drinks.  This affords Tony, an opportunity to assert independence rather than allowing his fate to be set by chance and circumstance., Tony comes to learn that the world is not as black and white as he and his father’s opposing opinion suggests – it is Patches of Grey.

Patches of Grey by Roy L. Pickering Jr.

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