Refinished We 8/10/22
This is one of my old hardbacks that I bought at a 'Sun City Book Sale' on Th 11/28/22 and finished Xmas Eve 2006, Sa 12/24/06 before I saw 'BLOOD DIAMOND' at Parkway Point.
From the book's page at GoodReads:
"Ray Mitchell, a former TV writer who has left Hollywood under a cloud, returns to urban Dempsy, New Jersey, hoping to make a difference in the lives of his struggling neighbors. Instead, his very public and emotionally suspect generosity gets him beaten nearly to death. Ray refuses to name his assailant, which makes him intensely interesting to Detective Nerese Ammons, a friend from childhood, who now sets out to unlock the secret of his reticence. Set against the intensely realized backdrop of urban America, the cat and mouse game that unfolds is both morally complex and utterly gripping."
The story is set in a housing project in NYC.
Ray Mitchell teaches children in a low income area. He grew up in the neighborhood and seems to feel guilty that he 'made it out'.
Mitchell is attacked in his apartment and almost killed. A black female detective (who also grew up in the area) takes the case because she appreciates his input to the community.
He became involved with a black woman whose husband was in jail. When he is released everyone thinks that this ex-con was the perp, but it's his teenage son who bashed the teacher on the head.
The kid commits the assault because he couldn't accept the fact that Ray was going to breakup with his mother. Ray was the first male that had ever paid serious attention to him in his whole life.
The book was well written and covered an interesting subject. I'd read more by this author in a second.
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