Description
Above Sugar Hill is a collection of short stories set in Washington Heights, New York City. The stories take place between 1973 and 2001 and focus on the residents and their relationships with the surrounding buildings and neighborhoods. Mannheim's writing is visceral and her stories are rich in detail, capturing the essence of life in Upper Manhattan during this time period. Above Sugar Hill is a must-read for anyone interested in New York City history or contemporary fiction.
Above Sugar Hill is an unforgettable collection of short stories set in Washington Heights, New York City. Located between 145th and 181st Street - roads no one from outside the neighbourhood is expected to visit. It is a visceral, vital work of site-specific fiction. These tales of New York take place between 1973 and 2001 - a Puerto Rican Independentista fends off the FBI, a young girl spots Marilyn Monroe more than ten years after Monroe's suicide, an opera-singing housing activist goes missing and presumed to have been murdered. Above Sugar Hill is a literary map of Upper Manhattan memories, uncompromising narratives and complicated truths.
Review:
Mannheim's restive tales of her desiccated stretch of New York provoke and abide like a slap. - Eimear McBride Linda Mannheim's smouldering vignettes of New York life are both achingly sad and beautifully wrought. These are stories to re-read and savour. - Stuart Evers The stories in Above Sugar Hill share a strong sense of territory but at the same time the buildings in them are vandalised and neglected; they burn and crumble - The children are as vulnerable as the buildings in which they live. - Alison Moore
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