Bitter Bronx

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Bitter Bronx
224 pages; Liveright

In this collection of stories, Charyn's characters leave blighted streets only to boomerang back to a part of New York "in permanent recession." With echoes of Walt Whitman's fantastical city and the hard-boiled territory of Mickey Spillane, Bitter Bronx elevates the borough's stoops and sidewalks into the realm of myth.

— Hamilton Cain