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The Street (1946)

af Ann Petry

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Fiction. African American Fiction. Literature. HTML:

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR TAYARI JONES
"How can a novel's social criticism be so unflinching and clear, yet its plot moves like a house on fire? I am tempted to describe Petry as a magician for the many ways that The Street amazes, but this description cheapens her talent . . . Petry is a gifted artist." ?? Tayari Jones, from the Introduction
The Street follows the spirited Lutie Johnson, a newly single mother whose efforts to claim a share of the American Dream for herself and her young son meet frustration at every turn in 1940s Harlem. Opening a fresh perspective on the realities and challenges of black, female, working-class life, The Street became the first novel by an African American woman to sell more than a million copies.… (mere)

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    Den hvide tiger af Aravind Adiga (teunduynstee)
    teunduynstee: Both novels show how well intentioned, hard working people do not stand a chance against the system of poverty, discrimination, prejudice, etc...
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    Yacoubians hus af Alaa al-Aswani (teunduynstee)
    teunduynstee: Both a kaleidoscopic narrative of several characters in one building, struggling against enormous poverty and adversity.
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Extraordinary, heartbreaking, infuriating. An immaculately constructed haunted house story. ( )
  localgayangel | Mar 5, 2024 |
This book will break your heart. ( )
  burritapal | Oct 23, 2022 |
The ending of The Street was a disappointment though for me the book was in the 5 stars category until the last couple of chapters.

I felt very much like I was reading a book that was completely relevant to today even though it was written in the mid to late 1940s. For me it was one more light bulb turning on in my head in a year where many have done so. The last four years have really shown me how important it is that we treat others equally and with fairness and 2020 in particular has given me a greater understanding of how rampant systemic racism is in our society. Black lives DO matter and many of us have only been nodding our heads yes but not really listening. The Street showed me that we haven’t been listening for a long time.

I had a hard time deciding between 3 stars and 4 stars for this book but in the end chose 4. It is a very readable book with characters that I really cared for. Lutie is a strong, intelligent and thoughtful woman trying very hard to make life better for herself and her son. Despite setbacks and expressions of anger and frustration, the way Lutie the character is written, I felt that she was level-headed and ultimately came up with practical solutions.

Therefore I felt a bit betrayed by an ending that had her killing Boots and ultimately leaving her son behind by simply getting on a train and moving to another city. It just didn’t feel right for her character.

Also I felt that characters like Mrs. Hedges, Min and Jones sort of dropped out of the story at the end without real resolution or further explanation. It is like the book should have gone on for more chapters and there should have been more to the story but Petry rushed the ending.

Despite that, everything before Bub landing in the center had a 5-star rating from me but that ending left me wanting. A reluctant 4 stars. ( )
  DarrinLett | Aug 14, 2022 |
Hard, hard, hard. That was the only way to be--so hard that nothing, the street, the house, the people--nothing would ever be able to touch her.

Some books just make you want to scream with indignation, and Ann Petry’s [b:The Street|186926|The Street|Ann Petry|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1495968348l/186926._SX50_.jpg|968007] is one of them. I knew what to expect from this novel. Written in 1946 at the height of Jim Crow and before the passing of the Civil Rights Act, there was little hope that this would be anything but a distressing chronicle of life for the blacks sentenced to living on the poverty-stricken streets of Harlem. I knew what to expect, but that did not lessen the anguish I felt while reading it.

When we meet Lutie Johnson, she is a single parent, with hopes and aspirations that reach beyond the struggling reality of her life with her eight year old son, Bub. She is beautiful and shapely and much desired by the men around her; a ruthless bunch, but many of whom would have also desired another life had they been given any choice. Bub is young and innocent and just on the verge of being introduced to the cruelties of the world he inhabits.

It must be hate that made them wrap all Negroes up in a neat package labeled ‘colored’, a package that called for certain kinds of jobs, and a special kind of treatment. But she really didn’t know what it was.

If you looked at them from inside the framework of a fat weekly salary, and you thought of colored people as naturally criminal, then you didn’t really see what any Negro looked like. You couldn’t, because the Negro was never an individual. He was a threat, or an animal, or a curse, or a blight, or a joke.


Petry’s observations are brutal and so hard to read about, all the more so because they ring so true. I could barely comprehend the depth of the despair and hopelessness for these people. I have seen poverty, up-close and personal, but this is more than poverty, it is squallor imposed from without. You cannot help praying that Lutie and Bub will be the exceptions and find the magic door that leads to escape; you cannot help wondering if anyone will be listening to the prayer.

Bub, for me, was the central character of this story, because he represented for me all that Lutie had to hope for, all she had to lose, and, sadly, what every one of these beleaguered men once were-- malleable boys, sweet boys, children thrown away.

This book is not perfect. I could easily point out defects if I made an effort to do so, but I think this is an important book that rises above any flaws. It is so honest--a kind of miracle when you consider how ill-received it might have been in its time, for shining a light on such a deplorable practice of this society. It is a debut effort, to boot. It was the first book written by a black woman to sell over a million copies. That told me that it hit a chord with a lot of people who were either embroiled in this life or witness to it. It saddens me that it has fallen into obscurity; with only 7,160 ratings on Goodreads.

For today’s reader, I would hope that it both highlights the ways in which things that should have changed have not, but also how much progress we have made toward a goal that we might someday actually reach if we continue to work at it. A girl like Lutie Johnson might still be lost in our society, despite all her efforts, but she might also achieve all the dreams that she has, a feat virtually impossible, indeed literally prohibited, in her time. ( )
  mattorsara | Aug 11, 2022 |
I read this book as part of the #ReadAnnPetry challenge from @ReggieReads on Instagram. Ann Petry’s book “The Street” became the first novel by an African-American woman to sell more than a million copies. And, shame on me for having never read it.

This book did quite a number on my mind and spirit. “The Street” is a long book and relentlessly bleak. I listened to this as an audiobook and really appreciated the narrator’s inflection, voice acting and overall delivery. But at more than 20 hours of listening time, I needed frequent breaks.

“The Street” follows Lutie Johnson, a single black mom in 1940s Harlem as she tries to build a life for herself and her son, Bub. No matter what Lutie does, the cards always seem stacked against her thanks to systemic racism. Ann Petry writes about the street they live on as if it were a living, breathing thing – a monster that chews people up and spits them out. Her story covers a wide range of gross injustices: racism, classicism, sexism, assault, poverty. And, it elicited a wide range of emotion from me: rage, sadness, disgust, terror.

For me, the length of this book made it feel like actual work to get through. There were scenes that felt like the endless staircase in the apartment, dark and stifling and hard to see. Maybe this book could have benefited from some editing or maybe I just didn’t have the emotional endurance to deal. Either way, this is a must-read. An eye-opening experience but not an enjoyable one. ( )
  MC_Rolon | Jun 15, 2022 |
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Ann Petry beschrijft de schrijnende situatie van een zwarte vrouw in het Harlem van de jaren veertig van de vorige eeuw. Een situatie waarin gedurende de afgelopen tachtig jaar niet veel verbetering lijkt te zijn gekomen, gezien alle initiatieven rondom Black Lives Matter van dit moment. Bovendien doet ze dit op een indringende, spannende en zeer stijlvolle wijze waardoor de roman, ondanks de schrijnende inhoud, toch een groot genoegen is om te lezen. Wat goed dat dit meesterwerk uit de Afro-Amerikaanse literatuur nu in Nederlandse vertaling beschikbaar is…lees verder >
 

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Fiction. African American Fiction. Literature. HTML:

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR TAYARI JONES
"How can a novel's social criticism be so unflinching and clear, yet its plot moves like a house on fire? I am tempted to describe Petry as a magician for the many ways that The Street amazes, but this description cheapens her talent . . . Petry is a gifted artist." ?? Tayari Jones, from the Introduction
The Street follows the spirited Lutie Johnson, a newly single mother whose efforts to claim a share of the American Dream for herself and her young son meet frustration at every turn in 1940s Harlem. Opening a fresh perspective on the realities and challenges of black, female, working-class life, The Street became the first novel by an African American woman to sell more than a million copies.

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