The Narrows Ann Petry Kaitlyn Greenidge Introduction by Ann Petry, Kaitlyn Greenidge (introduction) 9780063259997, 0063259990 instant download after payment.

It’s Saturday, past midnight, & thick fog rolls in from the river like smoke. Link Williams is standing on the dock when he hears quick footsteps approaching, and the gasp of a woman too terrified to scream. After chasing off her pursuer, he takes the woman to a nearby bar to calm her nerves, & as they enter, it’s as if the oxygen has left the room: they, and the other patrons, see in the dim light that he’s Black & she’s white.

Link is a brilliant Dartmouth graduate, former athlete and soldier who, because of the lack of opportunities available to him, tends bar; Camilo is a wealthy married woman dissatisfied with & bored of her life of privilege. Thrown together by a chance encounter, both Link & Camilo secretly cross the town’s racial divide, defying the social prejudices of their times.

In this stunning and heartbreaking story, Petry illuminates the harsh realities of race & class through two doomed lovers. This profound, necessary novel stakes Petry’s place as an indelible writer of American literature. 

Ann Petry was the acclaimed author of the adult novel The Street, a groundbreaking literary work about life in Harlem, which sold over a million copies. She also wrote several books for young readers, including Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad, the story of the courageous & heroic woman who struggled & fought for her people before & during the Civil War.