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Bezig met laden... Stories from The Tenants Downstairs (editie 2022)door Sidik Fofana (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Stories to reconnect you to people, in the best way. Pointed, complex, honest. ( ) 4.5. Just really well written short stories, each written from the first person perspective of a different resident of a single New York City apartment building where new owners are trying to evict people behind on rent. The writing is well done in terms of giving a genuinely very different voice to each person - the weakest one is written in the form of a letter by a kid who's bad at writing but it's still alright. You get in their head and really feel for them. For most of the stories there's a pretty similar theme - the daily struggle to survive, trying to get joy where you can find it, the attempts to get somewhere slightly better and the inevitability that a single bad moment will screw up all your plans. The stories are almost all pretty downbeat in that sense but they're not depressing exactly (well, mostly - there's one with a total downer ending). Even at the end when your plans have failed it's like, fuck it, tomorrow is another day. Obviously I dunno how *realistic* what's depicted here is but the author is great at really showing all the details and small moments that really make it feel real. It made sense at the end when I read that he's a public school teacher - the schools scenes are very well detailed in ways that are recognisable. Overall just a really great book. A great premise of a book: people's reactions to the gentrification of Harlem. This book contained 8 inter-connected stories about people that lived in a slum apartment building in Harlem. I didn't find the stories very connected. It was a difficult read for me with the use of black dialect, hip-hop lyrics, and frequent use of the N word. I had to interpret as I read; which irritated me. Guess this book was just too cool for me. 223 pages geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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