The Man Who Came Uptown
by George Pelecanos
Buy on AmazonThe Man Who Came Uptown is a 2018 novel by George Pelecanos – his twenty-first – about Michael Hudson, a man who after being released from incarceration struggles with doing the right thing despite it not being the easiest; the novel also addresses Pelecanos's repeated theme of the "redemptive power of books".
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Publishers Weekly's Best Books — 2018 · publishersweekly.com