Coster Naima - Halsey Street - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction. A modern - day story of family loss and renewal Halsey Street captures the deeply human need to belong not only to a place but to one another. 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. An engrossing debut Halsey Street shifts between the perspectives of these two captivating troubled women. Mirella has one last chance to win back the heart of the daughter she d lost long before leaving New York and for Penelope it's time to break free of the hold of the past and start navigating her own life.
Title: Halsey Street
Author(s): Coster Naima
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Barcode: 9781503941168
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 6/26/2018
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction