TY - BOOK AU - Kenan,Randall TI - A visitation of spirits: a novel SN - 0802111181 (alk. paper) AV - PS 3561 K33a 1989 U1 - 813/.54 19 PY - 1989/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Grove Press KW - African American teenagers KW - Fiction KW - Adolescentes afroamericanos KW - African American families KW - African American gays KW - Gay youth KW - North Carolina KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcsh KW - Bildungsromans KW - gsafd N2 - The Crosses are the oldest and proudest black family in Tims Creek, NC, a town still governed by the rhythms and rituals of farming and tobacco. But sixteen year old Horace seeks love and fulfillment where no other Cross has been. What emerges is the complex and sustaining truths of four generations of a black family's life in the South ER -