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Them - by Nathan McCall (Paperback)

Them - by  Nathan McCall (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The author of the bestselling memoir "Makes Me Wanna Holler" presents a profound debut novel that captures the dynamics of class and race in today's urban communities.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>From the "mesmerizing storyteller" (<i>The New Yorker</i>) and author of the bestselling memoir <i>Makes Me Wanna Holler</i> presents a profound novel--in the tradition of Tom Wolfe's <i>The</i> <i>Bonfire of the Vanities</i> and Zadie Smith's <i>White Teeth--</i>that captures the dynamics of class and race in today's urban integrated communities.</b> <p/>Barlowe Reed is a single, forty-something Black American who rents a ramshackle house on Randolph Street in Atlanta, just a stone's throw from the historic birth home of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Barlowe, who works as a printer, otherwise passes the time reading and hanging out with other men at the corner store. He shares his home and loner existence with a streetwise, twentysomething nephew who is struggling to get his troubled life back on track. <p/>When Sean and Sandy Gilmore, a young white couple, move in next door, Barlowe and Sandy develop a reluctant, complex friendship as they hold probing--often frustrating--conversations over the backyard fence. <p/>Members of both households, and their neighbors as well, try to go about their business, tending to their homes and jobs. However, fear and suspicion build--and clashes ensue--with each passing day, as more and more new whites move in and make changes and once familiar people and places disappear. <p/>Using a blend of superbly developed characters in a story that captures the essence of this country's struggles with the unsettling realities of gentrification, Nathan McCall has produced a truly great American novel.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Them</i> is a character-driven, insightful novel that gives readers an entertaining and balanced glance at gentrification. Nathan McCall has done a brilliant job of showcasing his talent, while at the same time showing his compassion for human nature. -- Zane, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Afterburn</i><br><br>Complex and flawed characters weave a story that tests our own contradictory feelings about gentrification and racial and class bias. A compelling read. -- Erica Simone Turnipseed, author of <i>A Love Noire</i>, <i>Hunger</i>, and the upcoming <i>My Name Is Zanzibar</i><br><br>Nathan McCall's debut novel, <i>Them</i>, a mirror of our time and souls, is awesome and destined to become a contemporary classic. -- Eric Jerome Dickey, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author<br><br>Nathan McCall's honesty and insight captivated the nation in <i>Makes Me Wanna Holler</i>, and those qualities drive his sure-handed leap to fiction in McCall's beautifully written first novel, <i>Them</i>. With painstaking balance and vivid characters both black and white, <i>Them</i> is a gripping and timely dispatch from the unfolding story of race relations in America. Nathan McCall is a national treasure. -- Tananarive Due, American Book Award-winning author of <i>Joplin's Ghost</i> and <i>Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights</i><br><br>What should we write about in our complex and changing world? And how? These are the questions that a writer constantly asks....Nathan McCall masterfully provides us with an answer. His novel could be taken as a model for modern writing. -- Maryse Condé, award-winning author of <i>The Story of the Cannibal Woman</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Nathan McCall, author of <i>Makes Me Wanna Holler</i>, has worked as a journalist for <i>The Washington Post</i>. Currently, he teaches in the African American Studies Department at Emory University and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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