Lazarus Man: A Novel Jena's Picks When grumpy ex-footballer Alfie Harding

When grumpy ex-footballer Alfie Harding gets badgered into selling his memoirs

are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear

they come up with a plan: They'll date each other and break up

It's not until they board the tour bus that they discover they've both accidentally had the exact same idea

A brooding

Lazarus Man: A Novel Jena's Picks When grumpy ex-footballer Alfie HardingIn this electrifying novel, Richard Price, the author of Clockers and a writer on The Wire, gives us razor sharp anatomy of an ever changing Harlem. East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five story tenement collapses into a fuming hill of rubble, pancaking the cars parked in front and coating the street with a thick layer of ash. As the citys rescue services and media outlets respond, the surrounding neighborhood descends into chaos. At days end, six