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Bloomsbury USA
May 2003
On Sale: May 14, 2003
300 pages
ISBN: 1582342725
EAN: 9781582342726
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Fiction | Multicultural African-American
Gentrification-by any means necessary.
With the help
of new employees Cedric, Bobby, and Horus-three ex-cons
trying to forge a new life-Lester Baines's Horizon Realty is
bringing Harlem back to its renaissance. Fate seems to be
working in Lester's favor when Harlem's undesirable tenants
begin to get clumsy and meet early deaths by accident. A
deadbeat dad electrocutes himself in the bathtub. A drug
dealer takes flight from his fire escape. A pimp is shot
dead by police when they mistake his wallet for a handgun.
That's where Horizon steps in. Block by block, Lester and
his crew clear out the rubble and the rabble, filling once
dilapidated brownstones with black professionals handpicked
for their shared vision of Harlem as a shining icon for the
race.
Rumors of the Chupacabra, a mythical monster
claiming the lives of Harlem's unfortunate, run rampant with
Harlem's youth. But it isn't until an ambitious reporter
begins to investigate the extraordinarily high accident rate
in Harlem that Lester starts to get a little nervous about
Horizon's future. For Lester, no cost is too high in
protecting Horizon and his vision for restoration. The
battle for gentrification and for the souls and very lives
of the ex-cons plays out on the streets of Harlem and
against a backdrop of beautiful Manhattan brownstones.
Mat Johnson has created vividly memorable characters and
a story that stands out as one of the most controversial and
explosive in years. As sure to ignite debate as it is to
entertain, Hunting in Harlem is an old-fashioned
page-turner with a fresh and brave voice.
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