Lazarus Man: A Novel Jena's Picks Winner of the California Book

Winner of the California Book Award

A brooding

and other tournaments had reason to be fed up

are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear

Lazarus Man: A Novel Jena's Picks Winner of the California BookIn this electrifying novel, Richard Price, the author of Clockers and a writer on The Wire, gives us razor sharp anatomy of an ever changing Harlem. East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five story tenement collapses into a fuming hill of rubble, pancaking the cars parked in front and coating the street with a thick layer of ash. As the citys rescue services and media outlets respond, the surrounding neighborhood descends into chaos. At days end, six