Name: Linden Hills
Rating: 4.5 (1 reviews)
ISBN: 9780140088298

Gloria Naylor

Lester Tilson and Willie Mason, a pair of hip, latter-day poets, work their way down through Linden Hills, experiencing firsthand the lust, pain, hypocrisy, and valor of the hell-bound upper- and middle-class residents

Linden Hills

Marion

Fences...Even at the university: big, stone fences - and why? The gates are open, so it's not to keep anybody out or in. Why fences?...To get you used to the idea that what they have in there is different, special. Something to be separated from the rest of the world. They get you thinking fences, man, don’t you see it? Then when they’ve fenced you in from six years old till you’re twenty-six, they can let you out because you’re ready to believe that what they’ve given you up here, their version of life, is special. And you fence your own self in after that, protecting it from everybody else out there…

powerful critique of the 19/20th rising black bourgeoisie… love when novelists write a book like this to flex on sociologists like I could do your work but more interestingly. 

Linden Hills

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