Thirty major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided New York
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a city where the top one percent earns more than a half-million dollars per yea
r while twenty-five thousand children are homeless, public discourse about our e
ntrenched and worsening wealth gap has never been more sorely needed. This remar
kable anthology is the literary world s response, with leading lights including
Zadie Smith, Junot Diaz, and Lydia Davis bearing witness to the experience of or
dinary New Yorkers in extraordinarily unequal circumstances. Through fiction and
reportage, these writers convey the indignities and heartbreak, the callousness
and solidarities, of living side by side with people of starkly different means
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