Finalist for the Gotham Book Prize, the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award, and the Ernest J.
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs brilliantly captures the joy and pain of the human experience in this singular accomplishment from a writer to watch ( Library Journal , starred review)..
All the while we brace, as they do, for the challenges of a rapidly shifting future.
We root for the tight-knit cast of characters as they weave in and out of one another\'s narratives, working to escape their pasts and blaze new paths forward for themselves and the people they love.
Miles, in apartment 21J, is a former gymnast with a good education who wishes she could leave Banneker for good, but can\'t seem to escape the building\'s gravitational pull.
And Quanneisha B.
Mimi, in apartment 14D, hustles to raise the child she had with Swan, waitressing at Roscoe\'s and doing hair on the side.
There is Swan, in apartment 6B, whose excitement about his friend\'s release from prison jeopardizes the life he\'s been trying to lead.
In eight interconnected stories, Sidik Fofana conjures a residential community under pressure.
But the rent is due, and the clock of gentrification--never far from anyone\'s mind--is ticking louder now than ever.
In other words, Harlem is home.
The neighbors in the unit next door are friends or family, childhood rivals or enterprising business partners.
Longtime tenants\' lives are entangled together in the ups and downs of the day-to-day, for better or for worse.
At Banneker Terrace, everybody knows everybody, or at least knows of them. -- The Wall Street Journal from a superb new literary talent, a rich, lyrical collection of Stories 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.
Gaines Award for Literary Excellence * Longlisted for the Story Prize Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, Kirkus Reviews , Library Journal , Chicago Review of Books , LitHub , and Electric Lit A standout achievement...
American speech is an underused commodity in contemporary fiction and it\'s a joy to find such a vital example of it here.
Finalist for the Gotham Book Prize, the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award, and the Ernest J
