The story begins on the campus of predominantly black Howard University in June of 1965. The characters are in the graduating class. President Lyndon Johnson gives their commencement address, promising them the same chance as all other Americans to realize the American dream. These four young women and four young men leave Howard searching for the dream. . . Their story begins where the journey in Alex Haley’s “Roots” leaves off.

Branches   is not a history book.    It’s a novel based on  interviews.    All of those interviewed did not go to

Howard. The characters are composites of interviews with an entire generation of African Americans who entered the mainstream of American life.

Using techniques pioneered in his prize-winning war novel, Coming Home, and his bestselling creative nonfiction book, Black Life in Corporate America, George Davis creates a saga of eight interwoven lives from 1965 until the 2008 Presidential election of Barack Obama. It is an epic story of how 43 incredible years changed America forever.