Sunday, September 08, 2024

Review of "Harlem Shuffle" by Colston Whitehead

This followed on from If Beale Street Could Talk...another book set mainly in Harlem, with a protagonist who has raised himself out of the criminal underclass and into the petit-bourgeois shop trading class (he's a dealer in furniture), but the temptation to re-engage with criminality as a fence continues to loom. It's a very compelling read with strong characters and plot, and another look at what it was like to be a Black person in a "less" racist northern US city.


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