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The Street

Ann Petry

Start date: July 1, 2018

Finish date: July 15, 2018

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Oct 11, 2020 Ken rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: finished-in-2020

On the radio this week, I heard someone quote someone (and wish I could recall the NAME of that someone) who said that Jim Crow hasn't gone away. He's still here, only as James Crow, Esquire, in the courts, working his ass off to make voting harder for Americans -- especially minority Americans -- in the courts. And it's working, too, mostly in the South and in deeply Conservative and ~~Republican~~ Trumpist states.

While Jim Crow isn't mentioned by name in Ann Petry's novel, he's lurking on every co ...more

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Jan 15, 2019 Linda rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2019, fiction, paperback, chcpl

Although not a mystery, this book is full of suspense. I knew SOMETHING major was going to happen, but I had to wait for the entire book to find out what, to whom, and whether it was a good something or not.
Well developed characters include Lutie Johnson who takes a job when her husband loses his. This starts the dominoes falling.
The book was written in 1946 and I could see (in my mind's eye) and feel the dreariness and challenges the characters had to deal with.

Thanks to Tayari Jones via Ryan L ...more

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