Urban Grit

Offering more than 400 street-lit titles this guide helps readers'' advisors and other librarians to better understand the genre and collect and recommend titles ranging from romance and coming-of-age stories to action stories and erotica.Street lit is also known to its enthusiastic readers as urban fiction ghetto lit hip-hop lit and gangsta lit. No matter what it''s called it remains one of the most significant and increasingly popular forms of modern literature.This text provides a much-needed resource guide to this vibrant genre. In this title more than 400 entries appear in eleven chapters each focusing on a different subgenre of street lit. The author has organized titles by popular subgenres and themes such as prison life and urban erotica to help librarians more easily identify read-alikes. Urban Grit: A Guide to Street Lit also contains practical tips on integrating these books into an existing collection or library program and meeting challenges that may arise in the process.