Audio Book Description:
Barlowe, a single African-American in his forties, shares a ramshackle house with his twenty-something nephew in the oldFourth Ward of downtown Atlanta,a neighborhood known as the center of the civil rights movement and former home of Martin Luther King, Jr. Barlowe works as a printer and passes the timereading books from the neighborhood library and hanging outwith other localblack men at the corner store. When Sean and Sandy, a white married couplefrom Philadelphia, buy and renovate the house next door in anticipation of a neighborhood "turnaround," everyone tries at first to go about their dailybusiness. But fear and suspicion begin to build as more and more new whites move in and make changes and once familiar people and places disappear.