A review by sariggs
Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

4.0

This book took me awhile to read, but it was worth it. It’s about Harlem as a neighborhood; it’s history, it’s famous people, and what it’s like to live there. It taught me that Langston Hughes’s ashes are interred under the floor of the atrium of the Schomburg branch of the nypl. It taught me that Hughes, like Baldwin, was queer. It described utterly familiar street scenes, and places in Harlem I had never noticed, like the Marcus Garvey Park fire tower. Very cool stuff.