Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore Textbook and a thousand desperate stratagems

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Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore Textbook and a thousand desperate stratagems*A Kirkus Best Book of 2022* A stirring consideration of homeownership, fatherhood, race, faith, and the history of an American city. In 2016, Lawrence Jackson accepted a new job in Baltimore, searched for schools for his sons, and bought a house. It would all be unremarkable but for the fact that he had grown up in West Baltimore and now found himself teaching at Johns Hopkins, whose vexed relationship to its neighborhood, to the city and its