Join us on Saturday, April 22, 2023 at 12:00 PM (ET) as we discuss Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Shuffle. We will meet at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, so bring your book, your ideas, and your beautiful mind. We can’t wait to see you for this discussion.

Harlem Shuffle Description: (336 pages)

“Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time... Harlem Shuffle's ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It's a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem.