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Selected quotes from "Manchild in the Promised Land"
Posted by Lemeechi on 2022-11-16 03:54:06 in Reading Notes (324 views)
By Chris Emejuru
Overview of the novel
An autobiography (with names of most people changed) about growing up in the black ghetto of Harlem in the 1940s and ’50s, about survival in the streets, with all the vices—drugs, violence, prostitution, gambling. Infuriation with the dad drove Claude out…