The Shape of Dreams : A Novel.

In this second novel by the award-winning novelist, a trio of women in East Harlem come together in friendship and tragedy to organize against the systems that hold them down We're in East Harlem, in the mid-eighties, and the large and formidable (some say crazy woman) Twin Johnson discovers the body of Anita's boy, Tyrone, on the sidewalk. She does just what her uncle, who runs his basement crack den as a family business, warned her never to do...