Colson Whitehead Harlem Shuffle : (The Harlem Trilogy Book 1) Paperback

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (Now a major Amazon Prime TV show)Dazzling Guardian Gloriously entertaining Evening Standard A rich, wild book New York Times Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked...To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonablypriced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Strivers Row dont approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, its still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his faade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger and bigger all the time. See, cash is tight, especially with all those instalment plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace at the furniture store, Ray doesnt see the need to ask where it comes from. He knows a discreet jeweller downtown who also doesnt ask questions. Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa the Waldorf of Harlem and volunteers Rays services as the fence. The heist doesnt go as planned they rarely do, after all. Now Ray has to cater to a new clientele, one made up of shady cops on the take, vicious minions of the local crime lord, and numerous other Harlem lowlifes. Thus begins the internal tussle between Ray the striver and Ray the crook. As Ray navigates... | Colson Whitehead Harlem Shuffle : (The Harlem Trilogy Book 1) Paperback