Episode 9: Fathers and Sons
From the author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a sizzling tale of heists and shakedowns, kickbacks and hoods, set in 1960s Harlem. Today:
From the author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a sizzling tale of heists and shakedowns, kickbacks and hoods, set in 1960s Harlem.
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: Freddie is in hot water. Will Ray save his feckless cousin yet again?
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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