A review by desireeslibrary
The Street by Ann Petry

3.0

Ann Petry is a phenomenal writer. She was a way of creating scenes that take their time to unfold and allows the reader to view the world through the eyes of her characters. She is remarkable in the way which she demonstrates how a novel can capture skewed worldviews and portray disordered thinking. Now, I am all for painful and poignant writing.... This was absolutely relentless and heavy handed. Honestly, it was a bit forcefully hateful. It was simply an overly depressing and borderline hateful novel about the lives of people who are too poor or oppressed to make it in a world that hates them.