However, fear and suspicion build—and clashes ensue—with each passing day, as more and more new whites move in and make changes and once familiar people and places disappear. Get a FREE ebook by joining our mailing list today!
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With painstaking balance and vivid characters both black and white, Them is a gripping and timely dispatch from the unfolding story of race relations in America.
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Them tells the story of Barlowe Reed, a single, forty-something African American whose attempt to buy the rundown house he rents in an historic black neighborhood is confounded by the sudden encroachment of whites abandoning the suburbs for the inner city.
Set in Atlanta, Ga. As more whites move into the neighborhood over time, conflict ensues. In the midst of those struggles, Barlowe and Sandy are forced to re-examine their own long-held racial assumptions. Every other year a board of judges awards the Townsend Prize for Fiction to an outstanding novel or short-story collection published by a Georgia writer during the past two years. The resulting volume is guaranteed to shake the assumptions of readers of every pigmentation and political allegiance.
He introduces a fresh perspective to the debates on gangsta rap and sexual violence. He indicts the bigotry of white churches and the complacency of the black suburban middle class, celebrates the heroism of Muhammad Ali, and defends the truth-telling of Alice Walker. Engaging, provocative, and utterly fearless, here is a commentator to reckon with, addressing our most persistent divisions in a voice of stinging immediacy.
His easy reading style unsuspectingly pricks the conscience. By Nathan McCall.
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