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‘Somehow Casey Gerald offers pulled off the most urgently political, most deeply personal, and most engagingly spiritual declaration of our time by just searching outside his windows and inside himself. Outstanding.’ – Marlon Wayne

‘Staccato prose and peripatetic storytelling combine the cadences of the Bible with an urgency similar to James Baldwin in this powerfully about There Will Be Zero Miracles Here: A Memoir emotional memoir.’ – BookPage

The testament of a boy and a generation who came of age as the world came apart–a generation looking for a fresh way to live.

Casey Gerald involves our fractured situations like a uniquely visionary see whose existence has spanned seemingly unbridgeable divides. His tale begins at the end of the globe: Dallas, New Year’s Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather’s dark evangelical church to see which of them will be transported off. His gorgeous, fragile mother disappears regularly and mysteriously; for a short idyll, he and his sister live like Boxcar Children on her disability assessments. When Casey–following in the footsteps of his dad, a gridiron legend who actually broke his back for the team–is recruited to play football at Yale, he enters a global he’s never imagined, the anteroom to secret societies and success on Wall Street, in Washington, and beyond. But even as he attains the inner sanctums of power, Casey views how the globe crushes those who live at its margins. He sees how the elite perpetuate the salvation tales that maintain others from rising. And he sees, most painfully, how his personal ascension is part of the scheme.

There Will Be No Miracles Right here has the arc of the traditional rags-to-riches tale, nonetheless it stands the American Dream narrative on its head. If to live as we are is normally destroying us, it asks, what would it not mean to seriously live? Intense, incantatory, shot through with sly laughter and quiet fury, YOU WILL SEE No Wonders Hereinspires us to question–even shatter–and reimagine our most cherished myths.