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THE STREET - ANN PETRY KARTONIERT (TB)

Introduced by Tayari Jones  New York City  1940s. In a crumbling tenement in Harlem  Lutie
Johnson is determined to build a new life for herself and her eight-year-old boy  Bub - a life
that she can be proud of. Having left her unreliable husband  Lutie believes that  with hard
work and resolve  she can begin again  she has faith in the American dream. But in her struggle
to earn money and raise her son amid the violence  poverty and racial dissonance of her
surroundings  Lutie is soon trapped: she is a woman alone  'too good-looking to be decent' 
with predators at every turn.  'A powerful  uncompromising work of social criticism . . . Few
works of fiction have so clearly illuminated the devastating impact of racial injustice'
CORETTA SCOTT KING  ' The Street is my favorite type of novel  literary with an astonishing
plot . . . Petry is the writer we have been waiting for  hers are the stories we need to fully
illuminate the questions of our moment  while also offering a page-turning good time . . .
insightful  prescient and unputdownable prose' TAYARI JONES  NEW YORK TIMES

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