As tensions build and the weight of centuries-of ancestors and future generations to come-culminates in a climactic reckoning, The Prophets masterfully reveals the pain and suffering of inheritance, but is also shot through with hope, beauty, and truth, portraying the enormous, heroic power of love. A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two. With a lyricism reminiscent of Toni Morrison, Robert Jones, Jr., fiercely summons the voices of slaver and enslaved alike, from Isaiah and Samuel to the calculating slave master to the long line of women that surround them, women who have carried the soul of the plantation on their shoulders. Buy The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr (signed first edition) from a real book. In it, Vi-An Nguyen shares her process for designing the cover of my debut novel, The Prophets. I came across the video above the other day. Masterfully written by Robert Jones Jr., this is the story of the forbidden love between Samuel and Isaiah, two slaves on the Elizabeth Plantation (but everyone. Happy Sunday, Family To quote the great Tabitha Brown: Y’all alright Very good. The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.

Isaiah and Samuel’s love, which was once so simple, is seen as sinful and a clear danger to the plantation’s harmony. Best Book of the Year NPR The Washington Post Boston Globe TIME USA Today Entertainment Weekly Real Simple Parade Buzzfeed Electric. Evolution of a Book Cover: THE PROPHETS by Robert Jones, Jr. It advances in a kind of double helix spiral, with the entwined lives on an 1817 Mississippi plantation encircled by ancestral African voices of the dead, voices whose truth. Its not a straight line, a straightforward story with a beginning, middle, and end. But when an older man-a fellow slave-seeks to gain favor by preaching the master’s gospel on the plantation, the enslaved begin to turn on their own. The Prophets, by Robert Jones, Jr., is an ambitious, terrifyingly beautiful book. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to each other, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge, a source of intimacy and hope in a world ruled by vicious masters. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the end. Isaiah was Samuel’s and Samuel was Isaiah’s.

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