Home to Harlem
Kindle Edition
Dover Publications · Ebook · April 17, 2024
Claude McKay’s 1928 novel, Home to Harlem, is one of the most important works of the Harlem Renaissance.
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- Who it’s for
- A Harlem Renaissance novel alive to jazz, hardship, and the search for belonging.
- Genres
- Black Historical Fiction, Black Urban Fiction, Black Fiction
- Published
- Dover Publications, April 17, 2024
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Claude McKay’s 1928 novel, Home to Harlem, is one of the most important works of the Harlem Renaissance. With raw, unflinching candor, McKay explores race, identity, love, and loss and gives voice to the plight of young Black men during the Jazz Age. Jake Brown, a Black American soldier and a World War I deserter, returns to Harlem and struggles to find his place in a vibrant working-class community that’s rife with poverty, crime, and racism.
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He meets various characters, including a displaced Haitian intellectual, prostitutes, hustlers, and jazz musicians, and he experiences everything from love and joy to despair and violence.
Harlem’s Many Notes
A Harlem Renaissance novel alive to jazz, hardship, and the search for belonging.
Come here for
- Harlem’s working-class community in the Jazz Age
- A candid novel of race, identity, love, and loss
Expect
- An unsparing view of poverty, crime, and racism
- A range of encounters, from joy and love to despair and violence
Where it sits
| Black Historical Fiction | 74% |
|---|---|
| Black Urban Fiction | 30% |
| Black Fiction | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- The Classics
- Black Historical Fiction
- Black Urban Fiction
- 20th-Century American Fiction
- Authors
- Claude McKay
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Published
- April 17, 2024
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- The Classics