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

5.0

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts innovates a tired genre--The Writer in the City. Generally, it goes: writer moves to a famous metropolisis; writer observes defining city rhythms and traits; writer succeeds or fails to transform themselves from outsider tenant to inhabitant , the hostile or welcoming cityscape determines that fate.


I disagree with readers who claim this book is too dense or academic. The book is a gift to readers who desire an un-Disneyfied , Greatest Hits picture of Harlem or of cities.


Unfinished review: Will complete over the weekend