The Street

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A Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Novel - Taken from back cover: The Street is the poignant and unblinkingly honest story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her struggle to live and raise a son amid the violence poverty and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s. The Street was Ann Petry's first novel, a best seller with more than a million and half copies in print.