![]() ![]() "The Street'" was an astonishing success particularly because Petry was an African American woman, and her career flourished after the book became popular. But her determination and self-confidence are battered at every turn by the predators of the street and the racism and sexism of the times. ![]() A literary, page-flipping thriller with sharp and eloquent writing, "The Street" is the story of Lutie Johnson, a single mother in the 1940s who moves from Connecticut to Harlem, determined to find a place for herself and her son in the American Dream. That would be Ann Petry, the one-time Old Saybrook resident who also briefly lived in Lyme, and whose 1946 novel "The Street" became the first novel written by an African American woman to sell over a million copies. Proportionately, we can't complain much in terms of how many successful authors have lived in or hailed from these parts.īut it's possible that one of our most accomplished writers - one who shattered stereotypes and barriers - has with time slipped under the radar. Groundbreaking 1946 novel by Old Saybrook's Ann Petry back in new edition ![]()
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