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An elderly church deacon in a 1969 Brooklyn housing project shoots a drug dealer in broad daylight, and the whole neighbourhood gets tangled in the fallout.
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
A skeleton found in a Pottstown well cracks open decades of buried history among Black, Jewish, and immigrant residents of a hillside neighbourhood.
Cannery Row
On a street of sardine canneries in Monterey, a marine biologist known as Doc, a band of good-natured bums led by Mack and the women of the local brothel share a block and a way of life, in Steinbeck's most affectionate book.
Harlem Shuffle
A furniture dealer in 1960s Harlem runs a criminal sideline, and the heist novel becomes a portrait of a neighbourhood navigating the edge of the Civil Rights era.
Wonder Boys
Over one chaotic weekend, a stalled middle-aged novelist and writing teacher tries to manage a troubled student, a dead dog, a pregnant mistress, and the 2,600-page novel he cannot finish.
Midaq Alley
The residents of a narrow Cairo alley during World War II, among them a beautiful young woman desperate to get out, chase money and love as the war changes the city around them.
The Night Watchman
A Turtle Mountain Chippewa night watchman fights to protect his community's rights against a 1950s congressional effort to terminate tribal sovereignty.
Anxious People
A failed bank robber holds eight people hostage in a Swedish apartment viewing, and every single one of them has a secret.
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
Cinnamon Gardens, a nursing home in western Sydney run by a Sri Lankan Tamil family, becomes the target of a local culture war, and the residents' memories of their own war come back.
Miracle at St. Anna
Four Black American soldiers are cut off behind enemy lines in a Tuscan village during WWII and find shelter with the locals.
The Reivers
An eleven-year-old Mississippi boy and two friends steal his grandfather's car and drive it to a Memphis brothel.
Paradise
An all-Black Oklahoma town's men attack a convent of women living on the outskirts, and the novel untangles the histories that led to the violence.
A Man Called Ove
A curmudgeonly old widower whose only joy is enforcing neighbourhood rules is slowly redeemed by the immigrant family that moves in next door.