Toward Camden

by Mercy Romero

Book Overview

In Toward Camden, Mercy Romero writes about the relationships that make and sustain the largely African American and Puerto Rican Cramer Hill neighborhood in New Jersey where she grew up. She walks the city and writes outdoors to think about the collapse and transformation of property. She revisits lost and empty houses-her family's house, the Walt Whitman House, and the landscape of a vacant lot. Throughout, Romero engages with the aesthetics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478014709
• ISBN13: 9781478014706
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"