Halsey Street

Resource Information

The work Halsey Street represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Wilmington Memorial Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Halsey Street

Statement of responsibility

Naima Coster

Creator

• Coster, Naima

Author

• Coster, Naima

Subject

• Dominicans (Dominican Republic) -- Fiction
• FICTION / African American / Women
• FICTION / Literary
• Fathers -- Care -- Fiction
• Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
• Women artists -- Fiction
• Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
• Domestic fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Domestic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Penelope Grand has scrapped her failed career as an artist in Pittsburgh and moved back to Brooklyn to keep an eye on her ailing father. She's accepted that her future won't be what she'd dreamed, but now, as gentrification has completely reshaped her old neighborhood, even her past is unrecognizable. Old haunts have been razed, and wealthy white strangers have replaced every familiar face in Bed-Stuy. Even her mother, Mirella, has abandoned the family to reclaim her roots in the Dominican Republic. That took courage. It's also unforgivable. When Penelope moves into the attic apartment of the affluent Harpers, she thinks she's found a semblance of family, and maybe even love. But her world is upended again when she receives a postcard from Mirella asking for reconciliation. As old wounds are reopened, and secrets revealed, a journey across an ocean of sacrifice and self-discovery begins

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

813.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3603.O86825

LC item number

H35 2017

Literary form

fiction