When he is involuntarily pulled into a high-profile theft, coerced to be the “fence” (the person who moves the stolen goods), it sets him on a path that carries us through the next five years of his life. Having previously earned this honour for his novels The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad, Whitehead released Harlem Shuffle to a lot of buzz and excitement from book lovers.īeginning in 1959, the book introduces Ray Carney, who was born and raised in Harlem and has made something of himself by going to college then opening a furniture store catering to the Black community in the neighbourhood. Harlem Shuffle is the newest release from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead.
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