It brings back the main character, Ray Carney, the owner of a furniture store on 125th Street in Harlem, who takes pride in upgrading his customer's living rooms with comfortable, quality sofas and recliners. The new novel, "Crook Manifesto," takes place from 1971 to '76. "Harlem Shuffle," the first novel in his projected "Harlem" trilogy, was set in the '60s. These novels give him the chance to write snappy dialogue laced with witty observations while writing about class and race, as well as crime and corruption at every level - from petty criminals to cops, city politicians and Harlem's elite. After writing about those grim subjects, Whitehead started writing crime novels set in Harlem. A film adaptation starring Aunjanue Ellis is in the works. The second Pulitzer was for "The Nickel Boys," based on the true story of a segregated state reform school for boys in which the boys were physically abused and dozens died. The first Pulitzer was for "The Underground Railroad," an allegory about race in America told through the stories of an escaped slave and a slave catcher. My guest, Colson Whitehead, won Pulitzer Prizes for two consecutive novels.
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