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A review by mothtimothy
Ellington Boulevard: A Novel in A-Flat by Adam Langer
i unwittingly took this novel out of the library that's about the gentrification of the neighborhood i grew up in. the story is pretty good. but the worldview & politics... kinda liberal. mediocre.
but whoa, it was pretty surreal to read this account of what's changed. it's very surface-y -- basically a list of stores and businesses. you can tell the "past" the author's comparing now to is probably, like, when he moved there 10 years ago, which was frustrating. but still, all those references to places-gone brought up a lot of memories/nostalgia/etc.
but whoa, it was pretty surreal to read this account of what's changed. it's very surface-y -- basically a list of stores and businesses. you can tell the "past" the author's comparing now to is probably, like, when he moved there 10 years ago, which was frustrating. but still, all those references to places-gone brought up a lot of memories/nostalgia/etc.