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Howard Street

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I married into the Grant family. "Bolo", "Shakdown", "Geronimo", "Strike" and "Izzy". Quite a collection real life characters. I tell my children if they want first hand knowledge about their father's family, they should read this book and in fact all but one has. I truly enjoy it and Nathan "Boobie" Heard was a very prolific and intelligent author. He passed away about 3 years ago, but Howard Street is an urban classic.

I read this book years ago. My son was employed at a library and
he would bring books home. at the time he was 18 years of age.
the book reminded me of the area we had resided in at one time. I had my children read the book, and believe it or not, his book
helped keep them into falling into the pitfalls of the wicked
streets, as a matter of fact I have read almost all of the books
written by black authors, chester himes, ralph ellison, to name
a few, at one time i had all the books, but i have passed them
on to my grandchildren they are collector of items, because they
treasure those books.

i have read the book in find it to be correct, i also meet the author of the book when i was in elementary school. i also come from the place that the book was written about. also one of the characters in the book i know personal. so i must say that book is a very good book.

If you are a fan of Donald Goines or Iceberg Slim you will enjoy this book.