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Stories from the tenants downstairs

Eight interconnected stories follow the tenants in the Banneker Homes, a low-income high rise in Harlem where gentrification weighs on everyone's mind, as they weave in and out of each other's lives, endeavoring to escape from their pasts and forge new paths forward.

Main Author: Fofana, Sidik (Author)
Other Authors: Fofana, Sidik.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2022.
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Apartment houses > Fiction.
Low-income housing > Fiction.
Low-income tenants > Fiction.
Neighbors > Fiction.
Gentrification > Fiction.
City and town life > Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction.
Short stories.
Linked stories.
Summary: Eight interconnected stories follow the tenants in the Banneker Homes, a low-income high rise in Harlem where gentrification weighs on everyone's mind, as they weave in and out of each other's lives, endeavoring to escape from their pasts and forge new paths forward.
Physical Description: ix, 211 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781982145811
1982145811
Author Notes: Sidik Fofana earned an MFA from New York University. Three of his stories appeared in the Sewanee Review . He lives with his wife and son in New York City where he is a public school teacher.

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