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Gone Missing in Harlem

Name: Gone Missing in Harlem
Brand: Northwestern University Press
SKU: 9780810143531
Price: 409 CZK
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Autor: Karla Fc Holloway

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: Northwestern University Press

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In her anticipated second novel, Karla Holloway evokes the resilience of a family whose journey trac...

Informace o knize

Autor

Karla Fc Holloway

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2021

Stránek

224

EAN

9780810143531

ISBN

0810143534

Enbook ID

33103305

Vydavatel

Northwestern University Press

Hmotnost

346

Rozměry

228 x 150 x 16

Kompletní popis

In her anticipated second novel, Karla Holloway evokes the resilience of a family whose journey traces the river of America's early twentieth century. The Mosby family, like other thousands, migrate from the loblolly-scented Carolinas north to the Harlem of their aspirations-with its promise of freedom and opportunities, sunlit boulevards, and elegant societies.

The family arrives as Harlem staggers under the flu pandemic that follows the First World War. DeLilah Mosby and her daughter, Selma, meet difficulties with backbone and resolve to make a home for themselves in the city, and Selma has a baby, Chloe. As the Great Depression creeps across the world at the close of the twenties, however, the farsighted see hard times coming.

The panic of the early thirties is embodied in the kidnapping and murder of the infant son of the nation's dashing young aviator, Charles Lindbergh. A transfixed public follows the manhunt in the press and on the radio. Then Chloe goes missing-but her disappearance does not draw the same attention. Wry and perceptive Weldon Haynie Thomas, the city's first "colored" policeman, takes the case.

The urgent investigation tests Thomas's abilities to draw out the secrets Harlem harbors, untangling the color-coded connections and relationships that keep company with greed, ghosts, and grief. With nuanced characters, lush historical detail, and a lyrical voice, Gone Missing in Harlem affirms the restoring powers of home and family.