TY - BOOK AU - Outen,Karen TI - Dixon, descending: a novel SN - 9780593473450 AV - PS3615.U875 D59 2024 U1 - 813/.6 23/eng/20230606 PY - 2024///] CY - [New York] PB - Dutton KW - Middle class African Americans KW - Fiction KW - African American men KW - Brothers KW - Mountaineering KW - Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) KW - Sports fiction KW - lcgft KW - Action and adventure fiction N2 - "Dixon was once an Olympic-level runner. 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, they are met with extreme weather conditions, oxygen deprivation, and precarious terrain. But as much as they've prepared for this, Mt. Everest is always fickle. And in one devastating moment, Dixon's world is upended."-- ER -