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Barlowe, a single, African American in his forties, shares a ramshackle house with his nephew in an Atlanta neighborhood, the old Fourth Ward, known both as the center of the civil rights movement and for its main street, Auburn Avenue, once the richest Negro street in the world. Barlowe works as a printer and passes the time reading books from the neighborhood library and hanging out with other local black men at the corner store. When a white married couple buys and renovates the house next door, everyone tries to go about their daily business, but fear and suspicion build as more whites move in, making once familiar people and places disappear. Superbly developed characters, realistic story line, and descriptions that capture the essence of American urban experience -- in black and white -- make this a truly great American novel.

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  • "Passing his time reading books and hanging out with fellow locals in his ramshackle Atlanta community, forty-something African-American Barlowe witnesses tensions between his neighbors and white newcomers who are promoting redevelopment efforts."
  • "Barlowe, a single, African American in his forties, shares a ramshackle house with his nephew in an Atlanta neighborhood, the old Fourth Ward, known both as the center of the civil rights movement and for its main street, Auburn Avenue, once the richest Negro street in the world. Barlowe works as a printer and passes the time reading books from the neighborhood library and hanging out with other local black men at the corner store. When a white married couple buys and renovates the house next door, everyone tries to go about their daily business, but fear and suspicion build as more whites move in, making once familiar people and places disappear. Superbly developed characters, realistic story line, and descriptions that capture the essence of American urban experience -- in black and white -- make this a truly great American novel."@en
  • "Barlowe Reed, a single African-American in his forties, is a hardworking printer who shares, with his twenty-something nephew, a ramshackle house in downtown Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward, the birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr. Skyrocketing housing prices and the new white neighbors' presumptuousness anger Barlowe and other longtime residents. When Sean and Sandy, a white married couple from Philadelphia, buy and renovate the house next door in anticipation of a neighborhood 'turnaround,' fear and suspicion begin to build as once familiar people and places disappear. As her husband steams under every negative incident, Sandy makes tentative approaches to have conversations with Barlowe."
  • "Barlowe, a single, African American in his forties, shares a ramshackle house with his nephew in an Atlanta neighborhood, the old Fourth Ward, known both as the center of the civil rights movement and for its main street, Auburn Avenue, once the richest Negro street in the world. Barlowe works as a printer and passes the time reading books from the neighborhood library and hanging out with other local black men at the corner store. When a white married couple buys and renovates the house next door, everyone tries to go about their daily business, but fear and suspicion build as more whites move in, making once familiar people and places disappear."@en

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  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "American fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Audiobooks"@en

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  • "Them"
  • "Them a novel"
  • "Them a novel"@en

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