Episode 8: Park Avenue
The sizzling new novel from the Pulitzer-winning writer of The Underground Railroad set in 60s Harlem.
Set in 1960s Harlem, the Pulitzer-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys spins a sizzling tale of shakedowns, audacious heists and kickbacks.
鈥淩ay Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked...鈥�
To his customers on 125th street, Ray Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture. Not many people know he descends from a line of uptown crooks, and that his fa莽ade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it.
When his cousin Freddie falls in with a crew who pull off one of Harlem鈥檚 most outrageous heists, Ray finds himself in way above his head. Can he succeed in living a good life in a very bad world?
Today: things come to a head across uptown.
Read by Rhashan Stone
Writer: Colson Whitehead is the acclaimed US author the Pulitzer Prize-winning novels, The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys.
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett
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