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The Street

By: Ann Petry
Narrated by: Jeannette Robinson
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With a new introduction by Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage and winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019.

New York City, 1940s. In a crumbling tenement in Harlem, Lutie Johnson is determined to build a new life for herself and her eight-year-old boy, Bub - a life that she can be proud of. Having left her unreliable husband, Lutie believes that with hard work and resolve, she can begin again; she has faith in the American dream.

But in her struggle to earn money and raise her son amid the violence, poverty and racial dissonance of her surroundings, Lutie is soon trapped: she is a woman alone, 'too good-looking to be decent', with predators at every turn.

©2019 Ann Petry (P)2019 Hachette Audio UK
African American Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Marriage
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