Above Sugar Hill
ISBN-13: 9780992765521
Author(s): Linda Mannheim
Subjects: FYB
Publisher: Influx Press
Publisher Imprint: Influx Press
Publication Date: 31-05-2014
Format: Paperback / softback
Availability: In stock
£9.99
About the book
Above Sugar Hill is an unforgettable collection of short stories set in Washington Heights, New York, in a place no one from outside the neighbourhood is expected to visit. It is a visceral, vital work of site-specific fiction. These tales take place between 1973 and 2001 - a Puerto Rican Independentista fends off the FBI, a young girl spots Marilyn Monroe more than ten years after her suicide, an opera-singing housing activist goes missing, presumed to have been murdered. Here is a literary map of Upper Manhattan, uncompromising narratives and complicated truths.