New York · 1952 · citedInvisible Man
Ralph Ellison
The narrator's Harlem: a stretch of Lenox Avenue and 125th Street where he speaks for the Brotherhood, sees an old couple evicted onto the pavement, and is finally swept into a night of fire and looting. The arc runs from a Southern college and a downtown paint works into the heart of Harlem and down to the forgotten cellar where a man who feels unseen retreats underground.
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