Love defies all odds in Jerry McGill's lyrical and heartbreaking novel Bed Stuy. Rashid is a Black man from Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, whose life is full of complications, and falling for Rachel, a married woman and Holocaust survivor who is 20 years older than him, adds one more. But despite their differences and all of the people telling them they don't belong together, Rashid and Rachel can't resist their undeniable connection.
Out Dec. 1