THE STREET (VMC REISSUE)

From the time she was born she had been hemmed into an ever-narrowing 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 eight-year-old 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 good-looking 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 JONES'The prose is clear the plot is page-turning the characters are utterly believable' CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE'Like the human experience this book is riddled with pain but somehow powered by hope' TAYARI JONES'I've recently had my brain re-wired by Ann Petry and it's that exhilarating feeling of falling in love with one of your lifetime writers for the first time' BRANDON TAYLOR