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Richard Price (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)The latest from the chronicler of urban grit known for “Lush Life” and “Clockers” — as well as writing on “The Wire” TV series — is set in 2008 in East Harlem, where a five-story tenement collapses suddenly. Six bodies are quickly discovered and many more residents are declared missing. Price, who was inspired in part by the 2014 collapse of a Harlem building, paints moving parts of several residents, among them a young artist new to the city and the owner of a struggling funeral home.
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