Book Of The Month

IN BACK OF GOD’S EYE:
SOUTH PHILLY, 1987
BY
REGINA JENNINGS, PhD

I am so excited and pleased to report that my first published novel will be appearing on Amazon for sale, November 11, 2025. This book is about teenagers during the stated time period and how a deliberate disappearance of the 1960s fervor has affected their perspectives, thinking, behavior and actions. There is a huge missing here of the previous generation’s Black Power activism and this gap allowed the dominant culture, the controllers of American culture to help rear this contemporary unguided generation. The main character is fifteen year old Jo-Jo Barnes who is being raised by his grandmother, his mother and father missing. Jo-Jo has just been crowned leader of his posse consisting of the Mighty D:Dynamite, Butler Lowinas, T.C., Smoke, and Susie Berringer. They are his neighborhood family and when a new girl, Gloria Brown, moves into their territory,the plot shifts in twists and turns involving an alive and creative landscape and universe, reminiscent of the vitally alive environment in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby. This landscape shadows death, outer space, disappearance, urban culture, Black history, love, loss, and renewal, how this neighborhood unifies to revitalize itself.