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**The author of the bestselling memoir Makes Me Wanna Holler presents a profound debut novel -- in the tradition of Tom Wolfe's *Bonfire of the Vanities* and Zadie Smith's *White Teeth* -- that captures the dynamics of class and race in today's urban integrated communities.**Nathan McCall's novel, *Them*, tells a compelling story set in a downtown Atlanta neighborhood known for its main street, Auburn Avenue, which once was regarded as the "richest Negro street in the world."The story centers around Barlowe Reed, a single, forty-something African American who rents a ramshackle house on Randolph Street, just a stone's throw from the historic birth home of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Barlowe, who works as a printer, otherwise passes the time reading and hanging out with other men at the corner store. He shares his home and loner existence with a streetwise, twentysomething nephew who is struggling to get his troubled life back on track.When Sean and Sandy Gilmore, a young white couple, move in next door, Barlowe and Sandy develop a reluctant, complex friendship as they hold probing -- often frustrating -- conversations over the backyard fence.Members of both households, and their ne

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Author

Mccall, Nathan

Publisher

Beyond Words/Atria Books

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781416554417

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (154 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14