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The Shape of Dreams: A Novel
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A trio of women bond in friendship as a neighborhood tries to seek justice from a system that has forgotten them.The Shape of Dreams is a powerful prayer, a novel that indicts the injustice for which there is no quick solution. . . . [It is] a song of furor and tenderness that will leave its mark. Walter Mosley, bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins seriesIts the mideighties in East Harlem: a twelveyearold black boys murdered body is found by Mathilda Twin Johnson, an unlikely hero who is both the neighborhoods troublemaker and its conscience. When she breaks a cardinal ruledont call the copsher decision ensnares a community and brings unmanageable grief to a mother. Anita, a postal worker and army widow, is determined to solve her sons Tyrones murder, and her quest galvanizes the neighborhood, which is itself a complex character in this teeming novel, with its Mets fans and gossips, immigrant shop owners and latchkey kids. The local dreamers include a charismatic man of the cloth, a teenage girl with a Whitney Houston voice and no prospects, and Anitas opinionated friend Wanda, whose truant son the police harass and arrest on a regular basis.Everyone is struggling. Anita, Wanda and Twin, the triad of this vibrant novel, are drawn into the neighborhood drug trap, while a singer, a preacher, and the church ladies who follow him believe their dreams can shape a city.Will the three be able to break away from cracks dangerous allure? Will the reverends pressure on the authorities to find Tyrones killer yield answers? Will justice come to East Harlem?In the end, during the New York Mets banner summer of 1986, this community will come together to mourn, fight for a better life, and shape their dreams as best they can.
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