Two worlds. One heart. A journey of identity, faith, and becoming.
Eritrean-Texan follows Dra’Yé Lu’Kray Boiss, a man born between cultures and shaped by two homelands — Eritrea through ancestry, Texas through experience. His life unfolds at the intersection of heritage and responsibility, memory and purpose, calling and destiny.
Inside his home, the aromas of berbere, injera, and tsebhi carry stories of ancestors and endurance. Outside, Texas wind, open roads, and working-class grit shape his resolve. Two languages breathe through him. Two histories live in his chest. And yet, he moves through the world with one question burning quietly inside:
Where do I truly come from — and how do I honor every part of that answer?
Across six deeply reflective chapters, the story explores:
Identity, belonging, and cultural duality
Spirituality, doubt, and inner conviction
Calling, sacrifice, and moral responsibility
Memory, regret, healing, and self-forgiveness
Destiny written beyond borders or circumstance
As Dra’Yé confronts his past, his wounds, his strength, and his faith, he learns that he is not divided between two worlds…
He is the meeting place.
And when fate leads him into the sky — on a mission above the night horizon of Iraq — a mysterious emerald force collides with his aircraft, transforming destiny into silence, legend, and awakening. His disappearance does not mark an ending.
It marks the beginning of something the world is not yet ready to understand.
Eritrean-Texan is the first volume in the DLB¹⁷: The African American Dualities series — seventeen stories exploring identity, heritage, resilience, migration, faith, and the courage to exist between cultures while becoming something new.
This is not just a story about where a man comes from.
It is a story about who he must become.