Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana Read Book
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Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana
Set in a Harlem high rise, a stunning debut about a tight-knit cast of characters grappling with their own personal challenges while the forces of gentrification threaten to upend life as they know it.Like Gloria Naylor?s The Women of Brewster Place and Lin Manuel Miranda?s In the Heights, Sidik Fofana?s electrifying collection of eight interconnected stories showcases the strengths, struggles, and hopes of one residential community in a powerful storytelling experience. Each short story follows a tenant in the Banneker Homes, a low-income high rise in Harlem where gentrification weighs on everyone?s mind. There is Swan in apartment 6B, whose excitement about his friend?s release from prison jeopardizes the life he?s been trying to lead. Mimi, in apartment 14D, who hustles to raise the child she had with Swan, waitressing at Roscoe?s and doing hair on the side. And Quanneisha B. Miles, a former gymnast with a good education who wishes she could leave Banneker for good, but can?t