Harlem Shuffle
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To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an
upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life
for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting
their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't
approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway
tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of
uptown hoods and crooks, and that his facade of normalcy has more
than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger and bigger
all the time. See, cash is tight, especially with all those
instalment plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops
off the odd ring or necklace at the furniture store, Ray doesn't
see the need to ask where it comes from. He knows a discreet
jeweller downtown who also doesn't ask questions. Then Freddie
falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa - the
'Waldorf of Harlem' - and volunteers Ray's services as the fence.
The heist doesn't go as planned, they rarely do, after all. Now Ray
has to cater to a new clientele, one made up of shady cops on the
take, vicious minions of the local crime lord, and numerous other
Harlem lowlifes. Thus begins the internal tussle between Ray the
striver and Ray the crook. As Ray navigates this double life, he
starts to see the truth about who actually pulls the strings in
Harlem. Can Ray avoid getting killed, save his cousin, and grab his
share of the big score, all while maintaining his reputation as the
go-to source for all your quality home furniture needs? Harlem
Shuffle is driven by an ingeniously intricate plot that plays out
in a beautifully recreated Harlem of the early 1960s. It's a family
saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a
social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to
Harlem.
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