Stories From the Tenants Downstairs

Stories From the Tenants Downstairs

Everybody got a story, everybody got a taleQuestion is: Is it despair or prevail?Set in a Harlem high rise, a tight-knit cast of neighbours grapple with their own personal challenges while the forces of gentrification threaten to upend life as they know itBanneker Terrace on 129th and Fred Doug ain’t pretty, but it’s home. Home to young and old, folk just trying to get by. Cookouts with beer and wings, summertime with souped-up cars bumpin music. People don’t come here for the bad; they came here to make a good life.It is home to Swan down in 6B, reconnecting with his boy Boons, just out of prison. Home to Mimi in 14D, raising Swan’s child, doing hair on the side. Home to Quanneisha in 21J, longing to leave but it’s where she grew up. Home to Mr Murray in 2E, who has played chess outside on the sidewalk for years. Some of the residents of Banneker have got it together, some can’t make rent or pay bills, some are raising kids, some are hustling on the side, all are living.

Book Title Stories From the Tenants Downstairs
Author Сідік Фофана
ISBN 9781529331875
Language English
Cover Hardcover
Date Published 2023
Publisher John Murray
Pages 224
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