An edition of Last Summer on State Street (2022)

Last Summer on State Street

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An edition of Last Summer on State Street (2022)

Last Summer on State Street

A Novel

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Felicia "Fe Fe" Stevens is living with her vigilantly loving mother and older teenaged brother, whom she adores, in building 4950 of Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes. It's the summer of 1999, and her high-rise is next in line to be torn down by the Chicago Housing Authority. She, with the devout Precious Brown and Stacia Buchanan, daughter of a Gangster Disciple Queen-Pin, form a tentative trio and, for a brief moment, carve out for themselves a simple life of Double Dutch and innocence. But when Fe Fe welcomes a mysterious new friend, Tonya, into their fold, the dynamics shift, upending the lives of all four girls.

As their beloved neighborhood falls down around them, so too do their friendships and the structures of the four girls' families. Fe Fe must make the painful decision of whom she can trust and whom she must let go. Decades later, as she remembers that fateful summer--just before her home was demolished, her life uprooted, and community forever changed--Fe Fe tries to make sense of the grief and fraught bonds that still haunt her and attempts to reclaim the love that never left.

Profound, reverent, and uplifting, Landmarks explores the risk of connection against the backdrop of racist institutions, the restorative power of knowing and claiming one's own past, and those defining relationships which form the heartbeat of our lives. Interweaving moments of reckoning and sustaining grace, debut author Toya Wolfe has crafted an era-defining story of finding a home -- both in one's history and in one's self.

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Last Summer on State Street
2024, Penguin Random House
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Last Summer on State Street
2023, Penguin Random House
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2023, Penguin Random House
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2023, HarperCollins Publishers, William Morrow Paperbacks
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Last Summer on State Street: A Novel
2022, HarperCollins Publishers
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Last Summer on State Street: A Novel
2022, Cengage Gale
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Last Summer on State Street: A Novel
2022, HarperCollins Publishers
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Library of Congress
PS3623.O366L36 2022, PS3623.O366 L36 2022

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Pagination
256
Weight
0.648

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Open Library
OL36021300M
ISBN 13
9780063209749
LCCN
2021038047
OCLC/WorldCat
1266201136

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