![]() ![]() ![]() Armed with gas masks and warned about “gangs” (read people of color), they seem to be the leading edge of a gentrification movement that threatens the perilous way of life the poor are scavenging out of the ruins of the city. Yet the story begins by focusing on two young men, returnees from the White exodus to space: Jonathan and his lover, David, who want to fix up a place for themselves. The simple pleasures of shared experience and the looming presence of disease and death are just as real. The details of the struggle to survive in a largely deserted city by homesteading in abandoned houses are as vivid as could be. ![]() You can feel Timeica’s horror, just as she has a thrilling vision of how life could be for the family she wants, when she sees Wyatt, her lover, spitting up blood and knows his end is near. You struggle through days with the Black workers Linc and Bugs as they collapse old houses to strip out bricks to sell to the colonies of White people living in space stations they can see through the stained air. Despite a few reservations, Goliath is an absolutely brilliant work that brings to unforgettable life the African American and Puerto Rican characters trying to get by in the poisoned neighborhoods of New Haven, Connecticut. ![]()
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