The Man In My Basement by Walter Mosley, Hardcover, 1st Edition

Brand new condition with dust jacket. Non-smoking home.

Synopsis:

To save the home that has belonged to his family for generations, Charles Blakey, a young black man whose life is slowly crumbling around him--his parents are dead, he is unemployed, he is drinking too much, and his friends have been deserting him--agrees to rent out his basement for the summer to a mysterious stranger.