Binding: Hardcover
Description: PEN Open Book Award finalist Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award winner Stephen Curry Underrated Literati Book Club Pick Named a Best Book of Summer by Good Housekeeping Chicago Magazine The St. Louis Post Dispatch Chicago Tribune Veranda The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Publishers Weekly and more! A powerful novel. Tragic hopeful brimming with love Wolfe's debut is a remarkable achievement. New York Times Book Review For fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Brit Bennett a striking coming - of - age debut about friendship community and resilience set in the housing projects of Chicago during one life - changing summer. Even when we lose it all we find the strength to rebuild. Felicia Fe Fe Stevens is living with her vigilantly loving mother and older teenaged brother whom she adores in building 4950 of Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes. It's the summer of 1999, and her high - rise is next in line to be torn down by the Chicago Housing Authority. She with the devout Precious Brown and Stacia Buchanan daughter of a Gangster Disciple Queen - Pin form a tentative trio and for a brief moment carve out for themselves a simple life of Double Dutch and innocence. But when Fe Fe welcomes a mysterious new friend Tonya into their fold the dynamics shift upending the lives of all four girls. As their beloved neighborhood falls down around them so too do their friendships and the structures of the four girls families. Fe Fe must make the painful decision of whom she can trust and whom she must let go. Decades later as she remembers that fateful summer just before her home was demolished her life uprooted and community forever changed Fe Fe tries to make sense of the grief and fraught bonds that still haunt her and attempts to reclaim the love that never left. Profound reverent and uplifting Last Summer on State Street explores the risk of connection against the backdrop of racist institutions the restorative power of knowing and claiming one's own past and those defining relationships which form the heartbeat of our lives. Interweaving moments of reckoning and sustaining grace debut author Toya Wolfe has crafted an era - defining story of finding a home both in one's history and in one's self. " Toya Wolfe is a storyteller of the highest order. Last Summer on State Street is a stunning debut." Rebecca Makkai New York Times bestselling author of The Great Believers
Title: Last Summer On State Street A Novel
Author(s): Wolfe Toya
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063209749
Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/14/2022