Tommy Lee Tyson

Twenty-eight-year-old Tommy Lee Tyson steps off the Greyhound bus in his hometown of Swamp Creek, Arkansas—a place he left when he was eighteen, vowing never to return. Yet fate and a Ph.D. in black studies force him back to his rural origins as he seeks to understand himself and the black community that produced him. They Tell Me of a Home and its sequel, Twelve Gates to the City, send TL Tyson on a journey of self-discovery and spiritual revelation.