It is 1926, the heart of the Roaring Twenties, and Harlem is the place to be. Years after dropping out of Harlem society, David McKay, a handsome lawyer from a prominent Strivers' Row family, returns home, devastated by the news of his sister's suicide.
Why did Lilian take her life? Why did she marry a man she barely knew, giving him a claim to the family home? Why did she feel compelled to keep her marriage a secret?
Burdened by a secret of his own, McKay dares to stay in Harlem to stave off the threat to his family home and answer questions about Lilian's death. He rediscovers the world of the Harlem Renaissance, a place of suffocating class strictures, seductive patrons, and aristocratic civil rights leaders. His inquiry takes him from the wealthy salons of Renaissance Harlem to the crowded tenements of its poor. He uncovers old loves and festering hatreds.
The deeper he probes, the closer he comes to unleashing forces that threaten to reveal his own crippling secret -- one that could destroy or redeem him.
This gripping 1920s murder mystery, taut and lyrical, combining elements of the suspense and hard-boiled genres, evokes the mystique of Harlem's most fascinating era. Absorbing and powerful, Harlem Redux combines incisive comment on race and class with a tragic tale of unrequited love.
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Four years after dropping out of Harlem society, David McKay returns home, devastated by the inexplicable suicide of his sister Lilian-and unnerved to learn that she had married in his absence, and that her husband is now claiming ownership of the family home. And as he becomes immersed in unraveling the mystery of Lilian's secretive behavior, traveling from the wealthy salons of Renaissance Harlem to the crowded tenements of its poorest inhabitants, David also finds himself confronted by his own crippling secret-one that could redeem him, or destroy him...
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- PublisherNAL Trade
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0451208749
- ISBN 13 9780451208743
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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