The Man in My Basement
Description:... A New York Times BestsellerCharles Blakey is a young black man whose life is slowly crumbling. His parents are dead, he can't find a job, he drinks too much, and his friends have begun to desert him. Worst of all, he's fallen behind on the mortgage payments for the beautiful home that's been in his family for generations. When a stranger offers him nearly $50,000 in cash to rent out the basement for the summer, Charles needs the money too much to say no. The man has a very particular - and very odd - set of requirements, and Charles tries to satisfy him without getting drawn into the strangeness. But he sees an opportunity to understand the secrets of the white world, and his summer with a man in his basement becomes a journey into inconceivable worlds of power and manipulation, and unimagined realms of humanity.About the author: Mosley's story collection, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Mosley's novel RJ's Dream was a finalist for the NAACP Award in Fiction. Mosley is the recipient of a Grammy Award and many other honors. Walter Mosley was born in Los Angeles and lives in New York.
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