The Intersection Showcases a Multi-Point of View That Explores Issues of Gentrification
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The novel explores gentrification's role in our sense of community. Regardless of class, race, or sexuality, people have a stake in this issue.
Philadelphia, PA (PRUnderground) September 19th, 2016
The Intersection: When a white driver critically injures a black bicyclist, the residents in a tense, gentrifying South Philadelphia neighborhood can’t decide whether to unite, hide, or explode.
Ms. Rose wrestles with ways to effectively organize the community and still be true to the neighborhood she fears may have outgrown her. Will the roots she’s planted be strong enough to sustain her? Carol Jones, the mother of the bicyclist, is drawn back to the neighborhood she fled years ago for posh suburbia and finds roots deeper than she realized. Michael, the driver and recent home owner in the neighborhood, must conquer his guilt over the accident while struggling with personal betrayal. By allowing strangers to help him, he discovers ties he didn’t know he deserved. Their intersecting lives test the neighbors–established and new–in ways they never expected.
The novel asks readers to consider (or reconsider) what it means to be a part of a community and how we value the roots we plant or the ones others have already nurtured.
Advance praise for the novel:
“In this engrossing, sharp-sighted novel, Windhauser places us at the intersection of people who defy suffering even as their pain threatens to strangle them. These are strong characters, fiery and deserving of our attention, and their stories humble us when we recognize our own within even the unfamiliar.”
~ April Ford, 2016 Pushcart Prize recipient, author of The Poor Children (SFWP 2015)
“In his latest novel, Windhauser depicts a Philadelphia neighborhood crackling with the tension of gentrification, and offers us a panoramic and deeply profound view of a community’s viewpoints. A beautiful, wise novel…” ~Susan Muaddi Darraj, author of A Curious Land: Stories from Home (Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction)
The author: Originally from Southern California, Brad Windhauser lives in Philadelphia. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte and is an Associate Professor (Teaching/Instructional) of writing at Temple University. His short stories and work have appeared in The Baltimore Review, Santa Fe Writer’s Project Journal, Ray’s Road Review, Northern Liberties Review, and Philadelphia Review of Books and Jonathan. This is his second novel. www.BradWindhauser.com
Copies of The Intersection are available at all major booksellers, including Black Rose Writing, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble
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About Black Rose Writing
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