David Bradley: South Street, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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The brilliant, heartfelt debut from one of America's foremost novelists of Black lives.

South Street, Philadelphia. The 1970s: A once-vibrant Black neighborhood, now threatened by gentrification...but still a community. At Lightnin' Ed's Bar & Grill, working men and winos watch as the Phillies lose again. A few blocks east, at The Word of Life, preachers prance to fill the plate but one still soothes the soul. Further east, at the Elysium Hotel, a pimp and numbers runner plans violence in response to a threat from "organized" competition. Above it all, in apartments unfit for habitation, Black folk live, love, even prosper.

Enter Adlai Stevenson Brown, a Black poet in search of "authenticity" and his own identity. But South Street is more complex than he---or any outsider---would expect. He can hear, glimpse, taste, even touch, but South Street refuses to be reduced to rhyme. And its dangers are real.

With riotous humor, sharp insight, and a poet's ear, David Bradley captures a vanished era in a neighborhood vibrating with life, history and contradictions.