Shannon Yvonne Moreau

I read Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead and it was just what I needed to fight the heading into winter blues.

“It was 1971 and the man and his city were versions of themselves, embers burying themselves in layers of their own ash.” —p89

It’s possible I liked this book even more than Harlem Shuffle, which I loved and read twice in a four-month span.

For Crook Manifesto I did the immersive thing— listened on audio (narrator Dion Graham is superb) while reading the hardcover (signed by the author from the author event!) and that was my happy place in November.

It was so good to be back in this world with Carney and Pepper and the fam and the store crew. I love how the author makes the city and places and people’s routines come alive. The rhythm, the story-on-a-story narrative style, all of it.

Vibrant with culture, especially the second caper. I’m ready for book three—I hope there’s a book three.

There’d better be a book three. 😀