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Home to Harlem

Claude McKay

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Table of contents
  • Beginning of Book1
  • First Part6
  • I. Going Back Home6
  • II. Arrival7
  • III. Zeddy8
  • IV. Congo Rose9
  • V. On the Job Again11
  • VI. Myrtle Avenue14
  • VII. Zeddy's Rise and Fall17
  • VIII. The Raid of the Baltimore21
  • IX. Jake Makes a Move22
  • Second Part24
  • X. The Railroad24
  • XI. Snowstorm in Pittsburgh26
  • XII. The Treeing of the Chef29
  • XIII. One Night in Philly34
  • XIV. Interlude36
  • XV. Relapse39
  • XVI. A Practical Prank40
  • XVII. He Also Loved42
  • XVIII. A Farewell Feed45
  • Third Part47
  • XIX. Spring in Harlem47
  • XX. Felice50
  • XXI. The Gift That Billy Gave53
Book details
  • Vendor Dover Publications
  • SKU 9780486854113
  • ISBN-13 9780486854113
  • Author Claude McKay
  • Category Fiction
  • Subject Classics

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Claude McKay’s 1928 novel, Home to Harlem, is one of the most important works of the Harlem Renaissance. With raw, unflinching candor, McKay explores race, identity, love, and loss and gives voice to the plight of young Black men during the Jazz Age. Jake Brown, a Black American soldier and a World War I deserter, returns to Harlem and struggles to find his place in a vibrant working-class community that’s rife with poverty, crime, and racism. He meets various characters, including a displaced Haitian intellectual, prostitutes, hustlers, and jazz musicians, and he experiences everything from love and joy to despair and violence.