Toya Wolfe | Last Summer on State Street

Last Summer on State Street

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Felicia "Fe Fe" Stevens is living with her vigilantly loving mother and older teenaged brother, whom she adores, in building 4950 of Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes. It's the summer of 1999, and her high-rise is next in line to be torn down by the Chicago Housing Authority. She, with the devout Precious Brown and Stacia Buchanan, daughter of a Gangster Disciple Queen-Pin, form a tentative trio and, for a brief moment, carve out for themselves a simple life of Double Dutch and innocence. But when Fe Fe welcomes a mysterious new friend, Tonya, into their fold, the dynamics shift, upending the lives of all four girls.

As their beloved neighborhood falls down around them, so too do their friendships and the structures of the four girls' families. Fe Fe must make the painful decision of whom she can trust and whom she must let go. Decades later, as she remembers that fateful summer--just before her home was demolished, her life uprooted, and community forever changed--Fe Fe tries to make sense of the grief and fraught bonds that still haunt her and attempts to reclaim the love that never left.

Profound, reverent, and uplifting, Landmarks explores the risk of connection against the backdrop of racist institutions, the restorative power of knowing and claiming one's own past, and those defining relationships which form the heartbeat of our lives. Interweaving moments of reckoning and sustaining grace, debut author Toya Wolfe has crafted an era-defining story of finding a home -- both in one's history and in one's self.

Coming-of-age
Literature

Additional Information about the book

Publisher: William Morrow

ISBN: ‎978-0063209749

ASIN: B09FLR5WLW

Word Count: 64800 words

Length: 216 pages

Language: English

Release Date: June 14, 2022

Available as: Ebook,Paperback

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August 10, 2022
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Wow. A masterpiece! I finished the book in a day because I couldn’t put it down! The author does a great job of really bringing the characters to life. You are sad, happy, angry, nervous, joyful with them. Thank you Toya for sharing your story with us. Good lesson on we don’t know what people are going through, where they come from, so the right thing to do is to be kind to everyone.

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