Last summer on State Street : a novel / Toya Wolfe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolfe, Toya, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Robert Taylor Homes--Fiction.

Robert Taylor Homes.

Friendship--Fiction.

Friendship.

Public housing--Fiction.

Public housing.

Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction.

Chicago (Ill.).

Community life--Fiction.

Community life.

Summer--Fiction.

Summer.

Persistence--Fiction.

Persistence.

Genre:

Bildungsromans.

Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

212 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]

Summary:

"For fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Brit Bennett, a striking coming-of-age debut about friendship, community, and resilience, set in the housing projects of Chicago during one life-changing summer"-- Provided by publisher.

Summer, 1999. Felicia "Fe Fe" Stevens lives with her mother and older teenaged brother in building 4950 of Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes. The high-rise is next in line to be torn down by the Chicago Housing Authority, and the neighborhood is beginning to fall down around them. Fe Fe is friends with Precious and Stacia, but when Fe Fe welcomes Tonya into their fold, the dynamics shift. Their friendships fray, as do the structures of the four girls' families. Fe Fe must make the painful decision of whom she can trust and whom she must let go. Decades later, remembering that fateful summer, Fe Fe tries to make sense of the grief and fraught bonds that still haunt her and attempts to reclaim the love that never left. -- adapted from jacket

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780063209749

0063209748

OCLC:

1266201136