The heist goes wrong and a cast of criminal figures enter Ray's life, forcing him into a personal struggle between aspects of his fractured self. Freddie orchestrates a robbery of the Hotel Theresa with his associates and volunteers Ray to fence what is stolen. Whereas Ray has steered his way toward an honest living, Freddie is descending into Harlem's criminal underworld. However, he occasionally fences stolen goods through his furniture store, including those from his cousin Freddie. Although descending from a criminal family, Ray makes his living working as an upstanding furniture salesman on 125th Street. In 1959, Ray Carney lives in Harlem with his wife Elizabeth, with whom he is expecting a second child. Ī sequel titled Crook Manifesto will be published in July 2023. It was published by Doubleday on September 14, 2021. It is a work of crime fiction and a family saga that takes place in Harlem between 19. It is the follow-up to Whitehead's 2019 novel The Nickel Boys, which earned him his second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Harlem Shuffle is a 2021 novel by American novelist Colson Whitehead.
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