A review by ronanmcd
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

adventurous dark tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I loved this. It's not a story about a character. Carney as a character is a device to tell about a place. It's about a city within a city, a world within a world. It's the story of a time, a dawning when race should have been been disappearing as an issue but instead we are shown the ugly truth; nothing changed. In the words of the character it's, "a map of the black nation inside the white world, with its own constitution."
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