All-Bright Court
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 039553271X / Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, September 1991
The lives of the residents of a black community in upstate New York reflect the changes of two decades of American history as the early promise of the 1960s gives way to faded dreams when the local steel industry declines and racial tensions mount
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A compelling first novel covering two decades in the lives of the Taylor family and their neighbors in an African-American working class neighborhood in Buffalo, NY. In a clear, quiet but powerful prose, the author draws the gaudily painted, rundown bungalows of All-Bright Court and peoples it convincingly.
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