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Subject·Single motherhood✕clear
Fiction · African American

The Street

Ann Petry
1946 · 448 pages

Lutie Johnson believes what Benjamin Franklin promised about work and thrift, and rents an apartment on 116th Street to raise her son. The men who watch her climb the stairs have other plans.

★ 6.7