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Gone Missing in Harlem

Name: Gone Missing in Harlem
Brand: Northwestern University Press
SKU: 9780810143531
Price: 6808 HUF
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Szerző: Karla Fc Holloway

Nyelv:

Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Northwestern University Press

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In her anticipated second novel, Karla Holloway evokes the resilience of a family whose journey trac...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

Karla Fc Holloway

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2021

oldal

224

EAN

9780810143531

ISBN

0810143534

Enbook ID

33103305

Kiadó

Northwestern University Press

Súly

346

Méretek

228 x 150 x 16

Teljes leírás

In her anticipated second novel, Karla Holloway evokes the resilience of a family whose journey traces the river of America's early twentieth century. The Mosby family, like other thousands, migrate from the loblolly-scented Carolinas north to the Harlem of their aspirations-with its promise of freedom and opportunities, sunlit boulevards, and elegant societies.

The family arrives as Harlem staggers under the flu pandemic that follows the First World War. DeLilah Mosby and her daughter, Selma, meet difficulties with backbone and resolve to make a home for themselves in the city, and Selma has a baby, Chloe. As the Great Depression creeps across the world at the close of the twenties, however, the farsighted see hard times coming.

The panic of the early thirties is embodied in the kidnapping and murder of the infant son of the nation's dashing young aviator, Charles Lindbergh. A transfixed public follows the manhunt in the press and on the radio. Then Chloe goes missing-but her disappearance does not draw the same attention. Wry and perceptive Weldon Haynie Thomas, the city's first "colored" policeman, takes the case.

The urgent investigation tests Thomas's abilities to draw out the secrets Harlem harbors, untangling the color-coded connections and relationships that keep company with greed, ghosts, and grief. With nuanced characters, lush historical detail, and a lyrical voice, Gone Missing in Harlem affirms the restoring powers of home and family.