The Street Cover:Paperback where greater opportunity awaits

where greater opportunity awaits

transforming readers into skilled rope skippers in no time

and connecting the experiences of urban youth to indigenous populations globally

com Best of the Year long-listed

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The Street Cover:Paperback where greater opportunity awaitsWith a new introduction from New York Times best selling author Tayari Jones, The Street was Ann Petry's first novel, originally published in 1946 and hailed by critics as a masterwork. The Street tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s. Lutie is confronted by racism, sexism, and classism