The Dust Bubble

About the Book

The Dust Bubble is a brilliant novel, full of family, immediate and extended, love, hope and nostalgia. It's about a community pulling together with a common goal; guiding a fatherless boy through childhood into manhood.

The story is set in the 70's when neighborhoods were precincts of extended families. There was an axiom in place then, taken from an African proverb, which said, 'It takes a village to raise a child.'

However, it was true then, like now, the villagers may have been pimps, whores, thieves, or junkies to the outside world, but to the individuals in the hood they were fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles, sisters and brothers.

The 'Dust Bubble' is a coming-of-age story of a boy who stumbled into the very real machinery of the adult world, and yet each of the miscreants he encounters and befriends tries to shield him from their own deviant, socially accepted behaviors. But Chicken Bones is aspiring to be a writer and gathering stories for his future books, a good kid doing positive things, so who could refuse to answer his many questions. Little does anyone know that the more he learns about their adult world, the harder it becomes to not plug into a system, and not participate in one of its many activities. Chicken is soon privy to more than anyone would have expected and is so close to the danger that he can sometimes taste the blood in his mouth.

About the Author

D Nasir was born in Dayton, Ohio and began writing poetry in the early 1970's

Since then he has written over 2000 poems, 15 manuscripts, 28 short stories, 2 children books, and 16 plays.

He is also an artist who has developed his own unique style of Decoupage art. He studied fine arts at Sinclair and Wilmington colleges, and has works of art on display at Antioch College, and at the Paul Laurence Dunbar Memorial House.

Writers can sometimes be just ordinary people, but to be a great writer you must be dedicated and constantly striving to improve upon the skills of the craft you have chosen. D Nasir is a great writer. With every project he completes he asks himself, "How can I make this better?" And so he constantly improves with each book he writes.

The Dust Bubble is one of many books written by D Nasir, but it is his first to be published and also the first of his "Bones Series Trilogy", a three-book series about the life of the character, Bones. The other two books of this series is titled, "Just Don't Fold", and "Finesse". However the story of Bones begins with "The Dust Bubble" which introduces Little Chicken Bones when he is just 13 years of age and coming into manhood. It is an eloquent story which the whole family will want to read.