"IN ITS POETIC SPLENDOR AND MORAL SERIOUSNESS, THE SPORT OF KINGS BEARS THE TRACES OF FAULKNER, MORRISON, AND MCCARTHY. . . . IT IS A CONTEMPORARY MASTERPIECE."―SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEHailed by The New Yorker for its "...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Aloma is an orphan, raised by her aunt and uncle, educated at a mission school in the Kentucky mountains. At the start of the novel, she moves to an isolated tobacco farm to be with her lo...