"...Like jazz that reaches out to both heart and gut, it is deep, throaty, and rich; its language and characters wail, leap, glide, and moan as Cherry Muhanji describes Detroit in the late 1950s and in particular a place called John R. Street...Whether day or night, John R. Street and its inhabitants are painfully, angrily, vibrantly alive, fighting a world that prefers light skin over dark, heterosexuality over homosexuality, money over spirit..."
"...Like jazz that reaches out to both heart and gut, it is deep, throaty, and rich; its language and characters wail, leap, glide, and moan as Cherry Muhanji describes Detroit in the late 1950s and in particular a place called John R. Street...Whether day or night, John R. Street and its inhabitants are painfully, angrily, vibrantly alive, fighting a world that prefers light skin over dark, heterosexuality over homosexuality, money over spirit..."
(E.B., p. 252)
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