Home to Harlem Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance a young woman steps into

a young woman steps into her deceased twin’s influencer life

The voices belong to the things in his house—a sneaker

His graveyard shift at a twenty-four-hour deli in Brooklyn is a struggle

After her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule

Home to Harlem Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance a young woman steps intoClaude McKays most well known Harlem Renaissance novel now in Penguin Classics A Penguin Classic Claude McKays first novel, Home to Harlem, was published in 1928 during the height of the Harlem Renaissance. McKay portrays Harlem post WWI through two Black migrants to New York: Jake, a Southern born African American longshoreman who deserts the U. S. army and returns to his home in Harlem; and Ray, an educated Haitian immigrant. With his innovative use