BJ

Abstract

Denise and Wesley Johnson are an African-American couple of modest means. Denise becomes pregnant, forever changing their lives and the lives of five strangers:

* Imani wa Ulimwengu, a priest who teaches and ministers to a group of people in remote Western Africa;

* Donald Hemingway, a homeless denizen of the streets of San Francisco;

* Mrs. Wilda Elvers, a partially blind and elderly woman living in Southern California;

* Vera Hicks, a quiet and shy registered nurse at San Francisco General Hospital;

* and Troy Shadale, a five-year-old boy who has not spoken a word since witnessing the death of his mother in a drive-by shooting.

At the precise moment Denise and Wesley conceive their child, they are all sent spiraling into a long descent of bizarre and supernatural events, that one day brings them together . . .