6 Days in January

In this powerful debut novel, William Fredrick Cooper presents a fresh perspective on relationships, shedding light on the insecurities, fears, and vulnerabilities that men try to conceal-and what can happen when they are suppressed for too long. Just after midnight on a bitterly cold Friday in January, William McCall is stumbling down an icy Bronx street, wondering when things started to go wrong. As he makes his way to an empty subway station, he begins piecing together the events and relationships that have led him to this moment-alone, ashamed, and kicked out into the cold. Realizing that he must face the past in order to restore his faith in himself, over the next six days William thinks back through the years, examining the events that led to his downward spiral. He is forced to confront memories and feelings that he has kept buried-a painful pivotal relationship, several emasculating incidents, countless ill-advised choices and mistakes, a myriad of insecurities and fears-and that have chipped away at his sensitive, chivalrous qualities, leaving him cynical, selfish, and bitter. A candid, cautionary tale of how a quest for romance can unintentionally transform a person into someone new, Six Days in January is an eye-opening, emotionally charged glimpse into the heart of an African-American man.Cooper, William Fredrick is the author of '6 Days in January ' with ISBN 9781593090173 and ISBN 159309017X.