Stories From the Tenants Downstairs
- Author Sidik Fofana
- Narrator various
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Run Time 6 hours and 5 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction.
Titles Purchased
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What to expect
Banneker Homes is a low-income high rise in Harlem where gentrification weighs on everyone's mind. There is Swan in apartment 6B, whose excitement about his friend's release from prison jeopardises the life he's been trying to lead. Mimi, in apartment 14D, who hustles to raise the child she had with Swan, waitressing at Roscoe's and doing hair on the side. And Quanneisha B. Miles, a former gymnast with a good education who wishes she could leave Banneker for good, but can't seem to escape the building's gravitational pull. These neighbours weave in and out of each other's lives, endeavouring to escape from their pasts and blaze new paths forward for themselves and the people they love.
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs brilliantly captures the joy and pain of the human experience and heralds the arrival of a uniquely talented writer.
(P) 2022 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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Bold, funny and gloriously flawed voices of New York . . . a bravura debut
Observer -
Absolutely brilliant . . . tender and tough
Daily Mail -
Ambitiously voiced and inventively structured . . . The sentences are infused with energy and dark humour, heralding an impressive debut voice and a skilful, pleasing collection
Sunday Business Post -
Outstanding . . . [Fofana] masterfully paints a portrait of the people most impacted by gentrification
New York Times Book Review -
Fofana makes us feel viscerally the weight of life’s injustice. He doesn’t idealize or airbrush his characters, yet he enables us to know their wit, ingenuity, joy, and resilience
Harpers -
His characters exude life and the different voices stay with the reader long after the book has been shelved
Boston Globe
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