The Street Nonfiction With a New Preface by

With a New Preface by the author“Breathe is a parent’s unflinching demand

as the McBroom sisters’ romantic adventures make for a white (hot) Christmas

the powerful and devious Cardinal Richelieu

Wild Women and the Blues is a mainstream historical fiction novel that weaves the stories of a grieving film student in 2015 and an ambitious chorus girl in 1925 in a tale of history

Kirkus Magazine

The Street Nonfiction With a New Preface byWith a new introduction from New York Times best selling author Tayari Jones, The Street was Ann Petry's first novel, originally published in 1946 and hailed by critics as a masterwork. The Street tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s. Lutie is confronted by racism, sexism, and classism