Book Discussion: Home to Harlem by Claude McKay

Come join us at the 125th Street Library to discuss Claude McKay’s classic novel of the Harlem Renaissance, Home to Harlem!

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Calling all book lovers! Come join us at the 125th Street Library to discuss Claude McKay’s classic novel of the Harlem Renaissance, .

Originally published in 1928, McKay portrays Harlem post-WWI through two Black migrants to New York: Jake, a Southern-born African American longshoreman who deserts the U.S. army and returns to his home in Harlem; and Ray, an educated Haitian immigrant. The novel portrays Harlem as a cauldron of Black life where Black people experience both White racism and intra-Black prejudice as well as sexual freedom and pleasure, all through the prism of Harlem’s jazz nightlife.

Copies of will be available for checkout at the circulation desk at the 125th Street Library on a first come, first serve basis.

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