Book Description
The prize-winning debut from an incendiary newvoice in contemporary fiction, 47th Street Blackis the story of JC and Mookie, whose rise in thegangster-driven ghettos of Chicago is as swift asit is brutal. Told from both perspectives, thestory follows their rise to power with Mookieas the de facto leader and JC as the enforcer,roles that land JC in jail for fifteen years,while Mookie takes over all of the South Side. Bythe time JC is paroled, the neighbourhood and thetwo men's lives are on an inexorable path to anexplosive confrontation.
