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By Ann Petry, Tayari Jones (Introduction), Danielle Deadwyler (Read by)

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First published in 1946, The Street tells the poignant and unblinkingly honest story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her struggle to live and raise a son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the 1940s.

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