Anacostia Versus the Anacostism of the 50s and 60s and 70s

Oscar's death reminded me a lot of Emmet Till and his death was very rooted in just the racist history of our country. I also tried to show what drove his behavior and what drove his wife's behavior, the complexities and difficulties in their marriage that was rooted by power struggle between the two of them. The mythology in the Egyptian war is that, you know, he was murdered and divided into many pieces of himself. And so I used that concept in a very literal way in the book. You can have the mundane or the gritty right next to the fantastical and the magical. It's difficult to say urban setting when you're talking about N-costia because it has a