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SUMMARY:CONTEMPORARY LIT - Cool Machine
DESCRIPTION:Join the Story Line Books Contemporary Literature Book Club as we discuss Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead\, the final installment in his acclaimed Harlem Trilogy (don’t worry\, the books all stand on their own\, you don’t need to have read the first two!) \nIt’s the 1980s\, and New York City is changing fast. Ray Carney—furniture salesman\, family man\, and sometime fence—has built a life that increasingly resembles respectability. But when his wife is denied a loan for her new business\, one last job pulls Carney back toward the criminal world he has spent years trying to leave behind. Meanwhile\, his old partner Pepper finds himself navigating a very different corner of the city\, and the past offers Carney one final chance to make right something he has never been able to forget. \nSpanning 1981 to 1986\, Cool Machine is both a crime novel and a portrait of a city reinventing itself—one where new wealth and glittering skyscrapers rise alongside displacement\, inequality\, and the people pushed out of sight. Whitehead brings the Harlem Trilogy to a close by asking what survives as neighborhoods change\, what we owe the people who came before us\, and whether anyone ever really escapes the choices that made them who they are. \nWe’ll dig into crime and respectability\, family and legacy\, race and class\, the transformation of New York\, and the ways Whitehead uses genre fiction to tell a much larger story about American life. \nNo need to have read the first two books in the Harlem Trilogy—Cool Machine stands on its own. And\, as always\, you’re welcome even if you don’t finish the book!
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