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A wildly amusing tale about heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s, from the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys.

“When it came to being crooked, Ray Carney was only slightly bent…” Carney is an upstanding salesperson of fairly priced furniture to his customers and neighbors on 125th street, making a decent living for himself and his family. His and Elizabeth’s second child is on the way, and even if her parents on Striver’s Row don’t approve of him or their tight flat across from the underground tracks, it’s still home.

Few people are aware that he comes from a long family of uptown criminals and crooks, and that his veneer of respectability has a few flaws. Cracks that are constantly growing in size.

Ray doesn’t question where his cousin Freddie gets the odd ring or necklace because money is tight, especially with all those installment-plan sofas. He knows a shady jeweler in the city who doesn’t ask any questions.

Then Freddie joins a gang planning to plunder the Hotel Theresa, dubbed the “Waldorf of Harlem,” and offers Ray’s services as a fence. The heist does not go according to plan; heists rarely do. Ray now has a new clientele, which includes dodgy cops, nasty local gangsters, two-bit pornographers, and other misfits from Harlem.

The internal struggle between Ray the striver and Ray the thief begins here. Ray begins to see who is behind the scenes in Harlem as he navigates this double life. Can Ray keep his image as the go-to source for all your quality home furnishings needs while avoiding being killed, saving his cousin, and grabbing his piece of the huge score?

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