![Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story by Michael Datcher [Hardback]](http://www.nananiashop.com/cdn/shop/products/5190Y6KAMYL_1_{width}x.jpg?v=1535927299)
Drawing on his own personal experiences of a fatherless childhood in inner-city Los Angeles, promiscuity, attraction to local gangs, and a lack of faith, a poet and journalist describes his own deep yearning--and that of other African-American men--to escape this destructive cycle to achieve family, personal security, and love. 22,500 first printing.