Elegy Written on a Crowded Street

by Peter Plate

Welcome to San Francisco: the first fully gentrified city in America.
May Jones is a bail bondswoman, someone who makes her living by putting people back onto the streets. Her most recent client, a young black woman, is on trial for the murder of her boyfriend, a police informant in the Fillmore District, also known as the "Harlem of the West," the neighborhood that the powers-that-be of San Francisco would like more than anything to see disappear...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583229310
• ISBN13: 9781583229316
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.2"