Razed

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lucy Wilson and her sister Ginny don't see eye to eye on anything including whether or not their father is a criminal. In 1973 during their father's funeral in upstate New York Lucy receives shocking evidence of his nefarious role in a highway project that destroyed Black and Jewish neighborhoods. Caught between her idealistic pursuit of truth and her delicate relationship with her sister-who joins forces with the city to honor their father with a statue-Lucy must navigate a treacherous path. How do you challenge the narrative that has defined your family for generations? And at what cost?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>I love a passionate vivid portrait of an American city - Razed gives readers just that in this novel that explores generations of family living through the many histories of a city in New York.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Susan Straight bestselling author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Mecca</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> and</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> In the Country of Women</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>A stirring portrait of great conflict and intimate triumphs RAZED deftly tethers present day 1973 with an unshakeable and selectively blind and brutal past. RAZED is a reminder of an unjust world and the prayer of a next generation on the horizon. Rita Williams-Garcia author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>A Sitting in St. James</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Lucretia Wilson Is a character to love and hate and love again. As a burgeoning feminist and social justice ally neophyte Lucretia's innocence has an unexpected domino effect and her rites of passage are not without great sacrifice... a poignant book for our time. Romaine Washington author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Purgatory Has an Address</em></p>