47th Street Black
A Novel
by Bayo Ojikutu
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appears in About Chicago.
The prizewinning debut of an incendiary new voice in contemporary American fiction, 47th Street Black is the story of JC and Mookie, whose rise in the gangsterdriven ghettos of Chicago is as swift as it is brutal.In the early sixties, 47th street is the heart of black Chicago, where recent migrants from the South come to move up in the world. JC ...
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