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A review by barbcher
The Street by Ann Petry
5.0
What a great book and I'd not heard of it. Why?
Ann Petry wrote this 74 years ago in 1946. What makes me sad are these two things:
1. Not that much has changed in relation to poverty, POC, the tight harness their blocked into. Made me so sad to realize how little societal change there's actually been over that time span.
2. Her writing was so excellent and one could really get a second hand experience thru Petry's fine writing and explanations of "the fight" and how white oppression really works to subdue, repress and minimize POC's expectations and realities thru such discrimination in jobs, housing, education, and how that all works to interfere with healthy marriages, so many well explained relationships.
I really found this a page-turner with Lutie and Bub being the heart of the book's narrative. The characters were people we've met and know, very identifiable. The Chandlers were identifiable as well, and others such as the Supt and Min believable. I enjoyed the character development as well as the arc of the story. I'll be recommending this one on my list of book club nominations, as I think it's a book for every white American to read and understand the dynamics of institutional racism.
Ann Petry wrote this 74 years ago in 1946. What makes me sad are these two things:
1. Not that much has changed in relation to poverty, POC, the tight harness their blocked into. Made me so sad to realize how little societal change there's actually been over that time span.
2. Her writing was so excellent and one could really get a second hand experience thru Petry's fine writing and explanations of "the fight" and how white oppression really works to subdue, repress and minimize POC's expectations and realities thru such discrimination in jobs, housing, education, and how that all works to interfere with healthy marriages, so many well explained relationships.
I really found this a page-turner with Lutie and Bub being the heart of the book's narrative. The characters were people we've met and know, very identifiable. The Chandlers were identifiable as well, and others such as the Supt and Min believable. I enjoyed the character development as well as the arc of the story. I'll be recommending this one on my list of book club nominations, as I think it's a book for every white American to read and understand the dynamics of institutional racism.