When Berry Hamilton is falsely accused of theft and imprisoned, his family flees the southern town that turned on them for the promise of New York, and discovers the city has its own ways of breaking people.
Paul Laurence Dunbar, the first African American poet to reach international fame, wrote this final novel about migration, false justice and the gap between the dream of the North and its streets. Generations of city migration stories, from Lagos to Harlem, echo what he set down first in 1902.
