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I finished last year’s Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead and I greatly enjoyed it. It’s set in Harlem from 1959 to the mid-1960s and not only is it very evocative of a specific time and place in New York, it’s quite funny. I haven’t read his earlier and very popular historical novels which frankly don’t seem quite my thing and I noticed a sense on Goodreads that those who did like his earlier books thought this not as good. Going out on a limb, I suspect it’s because Harlem Shuffle is lighter in execution if not in intent; I’m not terribly fond of historical fiction that’s trying to make a point and quite obviously. Anyway, I thought this was terrific.
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