![]() ![]() ![]() At every turn, Lutie is taken advantage of by both black and white men. She has dreams of rising out of poverty and leaving Harlem behind. When she is offered an opportunity to sing at a casino owned by a white man, Junto, she jumps at the chance, even though the job means that she must leave Bub alone in the apartment at night. She takes a new job but is barely able to make ends meet. ![]() When she discovers her husband cheating on her, she leaves him, and she and Bub move into a fourth-floor apartment in Harlem. Lutie Johnson takes a job as a live-in domestic for a white family in Connecticut and can only afford to come home twice a month to visit her young son, Bub, and her unemployed husband. THE STREET is as resonant today as it was in 1946. First published in 1946, THE STREET was Ann Petry’s debut novel and was the first book by a female author to sell over a million copies. THE STREET is the heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young, black, single mother trying to raise her son on the streets of Harlem. ![]()
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