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The Shape of Dreams: A Novel

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A trio of women bond in friendship as a neighborhood tries to seek justice from a system that has forgotten them.

“The Shape of Dreams is a powerful prayer, a novel that indicts the injustice for which there is no quick solution. . . . [It is] a song of furor and tenderness that will leave its mark.” —Walter Mosley, bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins series


It’s the mid-eighties in East Harlem: a twelve-year-old black boy's murdered body is found by Mathilda "Twin" Johnson, an unlikely h...