bFrom the mesmerizing storyteller iThe New Yorkeri and author of the bestselling memoir iMakes Me Wanna Holleri presents a profound novel--in the tradition of Tom Wolfe's iThei iBonfire of the Vanitiesi and Zadie Smith's iWhite Teeth--ithat captures the dynamics of class and race in today's urban integrated communities.b pBarlowe Reed is a single, forty-something Black American who rents a ramshackle house on Randolph Street in Atlanta, just a stone's throw from the historic birth home of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Barlowe, who works as a printer, otherwise passes the time reading and hanging out with other men at the corner store. He shares his home and loner existence with a streetwise, twentysomething nephew who is struggling to get his troubled life back on track. pWhen Sean and Sandy Gilmore, a young white couple, move in next door, Barlowe and Sandy develop a reluctant, complex friendship as they hold probing--often frustrating--conversations over the backyard fence. pMembers of