Road to Nowhere by Emily Lieb Urban Development But young Locke Lamora dodges

But young Locke Lamora dodges relentless danger

landing her in a fight to the death against his son

beautiful illustrated endpapers

Richard Allen Hall

never staying in one place long enough to put down roots

Road to Nowhere by Emily Lieb Urban Development But young Locke Lamora dodgesTraces the birth, plunder, and scavenging of Rosemont, a Black middle class neighborhood in Baltimore. In the mid 1950s Baltimore's Rosemont neighborhood was alive and vibrant with smart rowhouses, a sprawling park, corner grocery stores, and doctor's offices. By 1957, a proposed expressway threatened to gut this Black, middle class community from stem to stern. That highway was never built, but it didn't matter even the failure to build it destroyed