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...streets of Harlem that comprise the backdrop for Baker’s World War II-era novel are littered with ironic juxtapositions. Not the least of these is Striver’s Row, the elite black neighborhood where striving for anything seems perpetually futile...
This imagery is also applicable to “Strivers Row.” The literary acrobatics that Kevin Baker exhibits make the novel a lively and meaningful conclusion to his widely acclaimed “City of Fire” trilogy...
While jazz emanates from every corner of the city, the two protagonists of the story—Jonah Dove, resident of Striver’s Row and minister of the Church of New Jerusalem, and the young Malcolm X (then Malcolm Little)—are engaged in a fateful dance of despair and isolation that is resolved climactically amidst a chaotic race riot...
...jarring interaction with the young Malcolm in the beginning of “Strivers Row,” sends Dove on an existential crisis; he revives his old and emotionally complex practice of “passing” as white in prestigious institutions throughout New York City. Meanwhile, Dove loses the support of his congregation and even his usually sympathetic wife...
...Strivers Row,” Baker describes Lionel Hampton’s band at the Savoy: “Tripping on out to the floor as the tempo built, the drum pounding atop the bass line, then the trombones circling back to the theme again and again in long, dizzying loops, working the dancers harder and harder...