Tales of Two Cities
The Best and Worst of Times In Today's New York
by Taiye Selasi, Téa Obreht, Lydia Davis, John Freeman, Garnette Cadogan, Bill Cheng, Teju Cole, Jonathan Dee, Junot Díaz, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer, D.W. Gibson, Chaasadahyah Jackson, Lawrence Joseph, Victor LaValle, Valeria Luiselli, Colum McCann, Dinaw Mengestu
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"Growing inequality is today a world-wide phenomenon. But it is at its most acute in the 'world cities' where the rich choose to live (or invest their fortunes in real estate). Nowhere is this more evident than New York City, where the top 1% earns upwards of $500,000/year, while 22,000 children are homeless. What does this chasm of wealth feel like to people who live and work in NYC? The stories in Tales of Two Cities mix fiction and reportage to convey the indignities and heartbreak, the callousness and solidarities, of living side-by-side with people who have a stupefyingly different income."--
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