The Old Neighborhood: A Novel | 
panThere's certainly fantastic setting-building here. The whole book does come together by the end, there finally feels to be a storyline, and some of the action scenes had me tearing through the pages. But most of this is just episodic scenes of the narrator's life, bildungsroman-esque, and is in major need of editing as some of it is just repetitive or doesn't add to the reader's experience. Writing on race was clunky, outdated, awkward.
8little_paws Also, the old neighborhood in question was literally my old neighborhood, so that was kind of wild. 4y
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