The Shape of Dreams

In this second novel by the award-winning novelist, a trio of women in East Harlem come together in friendship and tragedy when a murder occurs and a neighborhood tries to seek justice from a system that has forgotten them. We’re in East Harlem, in the mid-eighties, and the large and formidable (some say crazy woman) Twin Johnson discovers the body of Anita’s boy, Tyrone, on the sidewalk. She does just what her uncle, who runs his basement crack den as a family business, warned her never to do: