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Home to Harlem: An Impact Book

Home to Harlem: An Impact Book

McKay, Claude

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General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798903000135
Publisher: Impact
Published: Jan 13 2026
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A landmark novel of the Harlem Renaissance-raw, lyrical, and unapologetically alive.

First published in 1928, Home to Harlem by Claude McKay was one of the earliest bestselling novels by a Black author in the United States. Set in post-World War I Harlem, the book follows Jake Brown, a disillusioned Black soldier who deserts the army and returns to New York in search of freedom, pleasure, and belonging. McKay's Harlem is vibrant and dangerous, filled with nightclubs, rented rooms, working-class hustlers, musicians, laborers, and dreamers. Through Jake's wanderings-and his uneasy friendship with the idealistic intellectual Ray-the novel explores race, class, sexuality, masculinity, and identity in a rapidly changing Black urban world. Bold and controversial in its time, Home to Harlem broke from polite literary convention, offering a frank portrait of Black life that challenged both white audiences and Black middle-class respectability politics. Nearly a century later, its voice remains urgent, musical, and fiercely modern.

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