Darius Stewart spent his childhood in the Lonsdale projects of Knoxville, where he grew up navigating school, friendship, and his own family life in a context that often felt perilous. As we learn about his life in Tennessee—and eventually in Texas and Iowa, where he studies to become a ...
looks me right in the eye, and said, “Mr. Carroll.” (He addressed everyone as Mister. I sort of liked it back then. Now it makes me feel old.) “Can you predict the future? Do you have