URBAN FICTION Free Burning by Bayo Ojikutu Three Rivers Press, October 2006 $13.95, ISBN 1-400-08289-7
Free Burning, the follow-up to Ojikutu's debut novel, 77th Street Black, takes readers into the grim realities of lives so bound up in cycles of poverty and degradation that often the only escape might well be to burn one's way free.
Tommie Simms-college-educated, husband and father-is laid off from his job at a prestigious insurance company in downtown Chicago following the 9/11 attacks. As his job prospects get increasingly bleak and bills mount up, he gravitates toward the lifestyle of his hustling cousins and other nefarious characters.
Ojikutu's images are …
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