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Above Sugar Hill
£9.99
‘Above Sugar Hill’ is a short story collection from novelist and New York native, Linda Mannheim. Sugar Hill is the bit of Manhattan between 145th Street and 155th street. It’s the place the best known residents of Harlem lived, including actor, singer and Civil Rights activist Paul Robeson, jazz legend Duke Ellington, and sociologist and historian W.E.B. Du Bois, but you won’t find it in any tourist guides. Each of these stories is about people whose lives play out on these streets, streets no one from outside the neighbourhood is expected to visit.
Description
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.
