Sunday & Two-Step: A Harlem Story (1)
Published by Porter Professional Publishing, 2026
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Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United KingdomRevaluation Books
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762 pages. 5.83x1.52x8.27 inches. In Stock.
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- Title
- Sunday & Two-Step: A Harlem Story (1)
- Author
- Porter, Robert (Author)
- Publisher
- Porter Professional Publishing
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- Brand New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1911879839
- ISBN 13
- 9781911879831
- Item weight
- 0.89 kilograms
Harlem, 1933. Prohibition is coming to an end-but for Isaiah "Sunday" Freeman and Leonard "Two-Step" Booker, going legitimate may prove more dangerous than breaking the law ever was.
For years, Sunday and Two-Step have made their living running bootleg whiskey through a city where survival depends on knowing when to talk, when to keep quiet, and when to drive. They are good at what they do. But as America prepares to repeal Prohibition, the two lifelong friends see something they have rarely been offered: a way out.
Their dream is deceptively simple.
A bar of their own.
A legitimate business. A place where Black men and women can work, drink, eat and enter through the same front door as everyone else.
But leaving crime behind doesn't mean the world is ready to let them succeed.
Banks refuse them. Suppliers change the rules. Landlords see opportunity in their ambition. Corrupt policemen and gangsters still expect their envelopes. And as powerful figures battle for control of Harlem's numbers rackets, Sunday and Two-Step discover that obeying the law offers little protection from those who control how it is enforced.
Around them, Harlem is changing. Legal beer returns. Prohibition falls. Dutch Schultz reaches into the neighbourhood. Stephanie St. Clair refuses to surrender it. And beneath the music, crowded streets and brilliant nightlife, unemployment, discrimination and anger are building toward the Harlem Riot of 1935.
Through it all, Sunday and Two-Step keep fighting-not to become kings of Harlem, but for something far more ordinary and therefore far more difficult:
the right to build a life that belongs to them.
Decades later, as ninety-seven-year-old Sunday Freeman lies dying, an old iron key rests in his hand.
His son knows the bar.
He knows the family business.
He knows how the story ended.
What he has never understood is what two men had to endure so that, one day, their children could simply unlock the door.
Sunday & Two-Step is a sweeping historical novel about friendship, race, family, dignity and the American Dream-and about the extraordinary price of owning one ordinary front door.
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Revaluation Books
Exeter, United Kingdom
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