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K. MURRY JOHNSON’S Image of Emeralds and Chocolate is a black gay love story set in both contemporary and slave times, a book that’s destined to become a classic in black and gay vampire literature. ...

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Published in: July-August 2012 issue.

 

Image of Emeralds and ChocolateImage of Emeralds and Chocolate
by K. Murry Johnson
Johnson and Franklin, LLC.  307 pages, $17.95

 

K. MURRY JOHNSON’S Image of Emeralds and Chocolate is a black gay love story set in both contemporary and slave times, a book that’s destined to become a classic in black and gay vampire literature. Primarily set in the Louisiana of today and the 1800’s of slavery and abolitionism, it is a coming-of-age story and also a fictional attempt to explore male sexual relations between slaves.

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