The Street Binding:Paperback toward hope in our common

toward hope in our common humanity

through the painful and confusing years after Liliana's death

Marked by the diversity of experiences shared

it would be over

The Street Binding:Paperback toward hope in our commonWith a new introduction from New York Times best selling author Tayari Jones, The Street was Ann Petry's first novel, originally published in 1946 and hailed by critics as a masterwork. The Street tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s. Lutie is confronted by racism, sexism, and classism