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The Old Neighborhood
The Old Neighborhood: A Novel | Bill Hillmann
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"A bright and sensitive teen, Joe Walsh is the youngest in a big, mixed-race Chicago family. After Joe witnesses his heroin-addicted oldest brother commit a brutal gangland murder, his friends and loved ones systematically drag him deeper into a black pit of violence that reaches a bloody impasse when his sister begins dating a rival gang member"--P. [4] of cover.
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8little_paws
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There's certainly fantastic setting-building here. The whole book does come together by the end, there finally feels to be a storyline, and some of the action scenes had me tearing through the pages. But most of this is just episodic scenes of the narrator's life, bildungsroman-esque, and is in major need of editing as some of it is just repetitive or doesn't add to the reader's experience. Writing on race was clunky, outdated, awkward.

8little_paws Also, the old neighborhood in question was literally my old neighborhood, so that was kind of wild. 3y
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