Mulberry Street Stories (Slechta Mary)(Paperback)

In this electric collection, Mary Slechta brings magical realism and U.S. history to bear on the community of Mulberry Street-- an African-American neighborhood with a disputed past. Is this enclave the result of white flight, a tenuous foothold for Southern transplants, or a sliver of the world that spun off during creation, once ruled by a god named Mr. Washington? Variously featuring the area's residents, Mulberry Street Stories uphold the perseverance of hope despite intergenerational trauma and demonstrate the interconnection of human lives throughout time. Slechta's characters have seen it all, from the persistent mechanisms of systemic racism--forced migration, redlining, gentrification, and more--to the fantastical--children at danger of falling off a flat world; a vampire posing as Henry Box Brown; and a husband tasked with building a supernatural maze to trap the
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