TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lethem,Jonathan
TI  - Brooklyn crime novel
SN  - 9780062938824
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
KW  - Nineteen seventies
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Neighbors
KW  - Criminals
KW  - Gentrification
KW  - Communities
KW  - Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
N2  - In the streets of 1970s Brooklyn, a daily ritual goes by the dance. Money is exchanged, belongings surrendered, power asserted. The promise of violence lies everywhere, a currency itself. For these children, Black, brown, and white, the street is a stage in shadow. And in the wings hide the other parents; cops; renovators; landlords; those who write the headlines, the histories, and laws; those who award this neighborhood its name. The rules appear obvious at first. But in memory's prism, criminals and victims may seem to trade places. The voices of the past may seem to rise and gather as if in harmony, then make war with one another. A street may seem to crack open and reveal what lies behind its glimmering façade. None who lived through it are ever permitted to forget
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