Barlowe, an African American in his forties, rents a ramshackle house in Atlantas old Fourth Ward. When a white couple buys and renovates the house next door, fear and suspicion build as the neighborhood begins to change.
Annotation: In a thoughtful and readable fiction debut, Nathan McCall looks into the racial implications of urban gentrification through the friendship of two Atlantan neighbors, Barlowe and Sandy. The complexity of the issues emerges as the characters grow and come to new understandings.
