Now in paperback, a powerful, heart-wrenching debut novel about ambition, survival, and our responsibility toward one another.
Dixon was once an Olympic-level runner. But he missed the team by two-tenths of a second, and since then, he hasn’t allowed a goal to consume him. But when his charming older brother, Nate, suggests that they attempt to be the first Black American men to summit Mount Everest, Dixon can’t refuse.
Once on the mountain, the brothers are met with extreme weather conditions, oxygen deprivation, and precarious terrain. And in one devastating moment, Dixon’s world is upended.
Dixon returns home and attempts to resume his job as a school psychologist, but things have shifted: for him and for the students he left behind when he chose Mt. Everest. DIXON, DESCENDING offers us a captivating, shattering portrait of the ways we’re reshaped by our decisions—and what it takes to angle ourselves, once again, toward hope.
Dixon was once an Olympic-level runner. But he missed the team by two-tenths of a second, and since then, he hasn’t allowed a goal to consume him. But when his charming older brother, Nate, suggests that they attempt to be the first Black American men to summit Mount Everest, Dixon can’t refuse.
Once on the mountain, the brothers are met with extreme weather conditions, oxygen deprivation, and precarious terrain. And in one devastating moment, Dixon’s world is upended.
Dixon returns home and attempts to resume his job as a school psychologist, but things have shifted: for him and for the students he left behind when he chose Mt. Everest. DIXON, DESCENDING offers us a captivating, shattering portrait of the ways we’re reshaped by our decisions—and what it takes to angle ourselves, once again, toward hope.
