Everybody got a story, everybody got a tale
Question is: Is it despair or prevail?
''Bold, funny and gloriously flawed voices of New York . . . a bravura debut'' Observer
''Sidik Fofana has an acute ear and a perfect eye'' Lorrie Moore, author of Bark
''Every once in a while a new writer comes along and refreshes our notions of what fiction can do . . . Buy this book, and prepare to be blasted by the brilliance inside'' Ben Fountain, author of Beautiful Country Burn Again
Banneker Terrace on 129th and Fred Doug ain''t pretty, but it''s home. Home to young and old, folk just trying to get by. Cookouts with beer and wings, summertime with souped-up cars bumpin music. People don''t come here for the bad; they came here to make a good life.
It is home to Swan down in 6B, reconnecting with his boy Boons, just out of prison. Home to Mimi in 14D, raising Swan''s child, doing hair on
