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02506aim a2200337 4500 001 70D8ECF66A3311ED875E3C802FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221122010041 008 220811s2022|||||||||n||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1797145045 020 $a 9781797145044 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Fofana, Sidik. 245 1 $a Stories from the tenans downstairs $h [audiobook (CD)] / $c by Sidik Fofana; read by Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Nile Bullock, Sidik Fofana, Dominic Hoffman, Depre Owens, Andre Santana, Bahni Turpin, Jade Wheeler. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b Simon & Schuster, Inc., $c 2022. 300 $a 5 discs (6 hr.) : $b digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 500 $a AUG22. 520 $a At Banneker Terrace, everybody knows everybody, or at least knows of them. Longtime tenants' lives are entangled together in the ups and downs of the day-to-day, for better or for worse. The neighbors in the unit next door are friends or family, childhood rivals or enterprising business partners. In other words, Harlem is home. But the rent is due and the clock of gentrification -= never far from anyone's mind - is ticking louder now than ever. In eight interconnected stories, Sidik Fofana conjures a residential community under pressure. There is Swan, in apartment 6B, whose excitement about his friend's release from prison jeopardizes the life he's been trying to lead. Mimi, in apartment 14D, hustles to raise the child she had with Swan, waitressing at Roscoe's and doing hair on the side. And Quanneisha B. Miles, in apartment 21J, is a former gymnast with a good education who wishes she could leave Banneker for good, but can't seem to escape the building's gravitational pull. We root for the tight-knit cast of characters as they weave in and out of one another's narratives, working to escape their pasts and blaze new paths forward for themselves and the people they love. All the while we brace, as they do, for the challenges of a rapidly shifting future. 541 $d 20220811. 700 $a Abbott-Pratt, Joniece, $e narrator. 700 $a Bullock, Nile, $e narrator. 700 $a Hoffman, Dominic, $e narrator. 700 $a Owens, Depre, $e narrator. 700 $a Santana, Andre, $e narrator. 700 $a Turpin, Bahni, $e narrator. 700 $a Wheeler, Jade, $e narrator. 941 $a 2 945 $a cda 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20231206011149.0 952 $l KJPF566 $d 20221122011931.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=70D8ECF66A3311ED875E3C802FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search