![]() ![]() Perkins strolls by and invites Sydney to a block party meeting at his house. Sydney chides the tour guide for the omission of Black history and resolves to create her own tour honoring the neighborhood’s historical and current Black community.Īfter the tour, Sydney ruminates on the rapid gentrification of Gifford Place while overhearing racist comments from her new white neighbors. ![]() The novel begins with a historic brownstone tour of Gifford Place. The second narrator, Theo, is an unemployed white man who moved to Gifford Place after purchasing a house with his girlfriend, Kim. The primary narrator is Sydney, a 30-year-old Black woman who recently returned to Gifford Place after a traumatic divorce. The novel alternates between two first-person, present tense narrators with snippets of conversation from a community app called OurHome interspersed between chapters. Kindle edition.Ĭole’s thriller takes place in a contemporary fictional Brooklyn neighborhood called Gifford Place. ![]() The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Cole, Alyssa. ![]()
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