GOLIATH opens in 1910 when Black teenager David Jeremiah Lightfoot inherits his father’s barren Mississippi farm. There, he confronts literal and figurative giants as his ancestors’ legacy binds his fate to his new family, their land, and the surrounding community.
"The beautiful, brutal landscape, the love, the evil, the joys and the sorrows of one family left me feeling I had just lived a second life." —ABRAHAM VERGHESE, author of The Covenant of Water