Book review: colsonwhitehead's 'Crook Manifesto' is an entertaining, uneven sequel to the 2021 bestseller 'Harlem Shuffle'
"Crook Manifesto" by Colson Whitehead In his bestselling 2021 crime novel"Harlem Shuffle," Colson Whitehead introduced the complicated character of Ray Carney, a Black furniture store owner and small-time fence clawing his way into the middle class while resisting the urge to follow in the footsteps of his thuggish father. That novel played out in Harlem during the civil rights struggles of the early 1960s, and the city itself was a major character.
Carney's desire to score impossible-to-get Jackson 5 tickets for his increasingly aloof teenage daughter prompts him to seek out the corrupt cop and fixer he used to do business with -- and all hell breaks loose. With Carney back in the game, Whitehead proceeds to show us"the invisible barrier that separated his city from the white city" in a decade when the Bronx was burning and the Daily News blared"Ford to City: Drop Dead.
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