![]() ![]() ![]() They have a young child with another on the way, and their store on 125 th Street struggles to pay the bills but offers some promise for the family’s future.Ĭarney lost his mother when he was nine, and his small-time crook father died at the hands of the police during Carney’s young adulthood. He’s married to a patient if oblivious woman from a respected Harlem family. His main character, Ray Carney, is a Black New York City furniture store owner in the 1950-60s who wants more from life. Whitehead undercuts these expectations by writing a crime novel that only secondarily concerns itself with literary heights and sticks more closely to the shore of genre. Press play to hear a narrated version of this story, presented by AudioHopper. Whitehead’s new novel has many expectations foisted upon it that have nothing to do with the more fundamental accomplishment of engaging and enlightening readers. No one has ever won three-and by extension, not three in a row-but that’s the kind of worldly potential that greets Harlem Shuffle as it comes out this month. Only three other novelists-Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and John Updike-have won two, and Whitehead did it with two novels in a row, The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys. Harlem Shuffle is the seventh novel by Colson Whitehead, and his last two won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. ![]()
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