Fiction-Stories

Harlem Shuffle: A Novel by Colson Whitehead

To Harlem residents, Ray Carney seems to be an upstanding furniture owner and salesman. He aspires to sell reasonably priced items to furnish people’s houses and apartments and live a middle-class life by providing for his family. However, he descends from a family involved in crime, and he’s never fully escaped those roots. To those crooks who know his dark side, he represents an opportunity. His cousins and connections allow him to live a double…

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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

Zora Neale Hurston was one of the pioneering authors during the Harlem Renaissance and is most well-known for the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. This work is a compilation of short stories published during her life. Many of these short stories are previously unavailable to a wider audience. Together, they open a tall and wide window to African American life in Eatonville, Florida, Hurston’s hometown, and Harlem, New York, in the early twentieth century.…

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