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Title details for Gone Missing in Harlem by Karla FC Holloway - Available

Gone Missing in Harlem

A Novel

by Karla FC Holloway
Kelechi Ezie
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The Mosby family, like other thousands, migrate from the loblolly-scented Carolinas north to the Harlem of their aspirations—with its promise of freedom and opportunities, sunlit boulevards, and elegant societies.
The family arrives as Harlem staggers under the flu pandemic that follows the First World War. DeLilah Mosby and her daughter, Selma, meet difficulties with backbone and resolve to make a home for themselves in the city, and Selma has a baby, Chloe. As the Great Depression creeps across the world at the close of the twenties, however, the farsighted see hard times coming.
The panic of the early thirties is embodied in the kidnapping and murder of the infant son of the nation's dashing young aviator, Charles Lindbergh. A transfixed public follows the manhunt in the press and on the radio. Then Chloe goes missing—but her disappearance does not draw the same attention. Wry and perceptive Weldon Haynie Thomas, the city's first "colored" policeman, takes the case.
The urgent investigation tests Thomas's abilities to draw out the secrets Harlem harbors, untangling the color-coded connections and relationships that keep company with greed, ghosts, and grief.

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    May 31, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9781666104875
      • File size: 273727 KB
      • Duration: 09:30:15

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Kelechi Ezie's narration brings warmth and compassion to every character in this engrossing mystery. The time period is shortly after WWI, a period of upheaval across the nation. Ezie's silky voice slips easily into the complicated lives of the Mosby family. After migrating from North Carolina to Harlem, DeLilah and daughter Selma face numerous hardships with strength and determination. The shocking kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby grips the country, and when Selma's baby goes missing, Harlem's first "colored" policeman, Weldon Thomas, is assigned to investigate. Thomas does his best, but compared to the massive hunt for the Lindbergh baby, Chloe's disappearance gets short shrift. Ezie's rendering of Holloway's gorgeous prose and expert plotting add depth and poignancy to this heartrending story. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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