From the time she was born, she had been hemmed into an evernarrowing space, until now she was very nearly walled in . . . New York City, 1940s. In a crumbling tenement in Harlem, Lutie Johnson is determined to build a new life for herself and her eightyearold boy, Bub. Having left her unreliable husband, Lutie believes that with hard work and resolve, she can begin again. But in her struggle to earn a respectable living amid the violence, poverty and racial dissonance of her surroundings, Lutie is soon trapped she is a woman alone, too goodlooking to be decent, with predators at every turn. The first book by a Black woman to sell more than a million copies, The Street combines the pace of a thriller with an unflinching portrait of injustice and hope.Introduced by TAYARI JONESThe prose is clear, the plot is pageturning, the characters are utterly believable CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIELike the human experience, this book is riddled with pain, but somehow powered by hope TAYARI JONESIve recently had my brain rewired by Ann Petry, and its that exhilarating feeling of falling in love with one of your lifetime writers for the first time BRANDON TAYLOR

Binding: Paperback;416 pages; Publisher: Hachette UK Distribution; Classification: FA; Weight: 448 g; Dimensions: 127 x 198 x 28

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