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Goodbye, Sweetberry Park: A Novel of City Life, Creeping Gentrification and Flesh-eating Snakes
Archie "God" Johnson-so known for his flowing white hair, voluminous beard, and larger-than-life persona-is a veteran Atlanta...
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Archie "God" Johnson-so known for his flowing white hair, voluminous beard, and larger-than-life persona-is a veteran Atlanta journalist of Nigerian and Scots-Irish descent. When his racist White grandfather dies and leaves him a dilapidated Victorian house in the mostly Black neighborhood-a final curse from beyond the grave-Johnson moves to Sweetberry Park. As it happens, his life will never be the same.
Distraught after a personal tragedy and still bleary from a long drug binge he used to cope, Johnson pulls himself together and rebuilds the Victorian, finds acceptance among his new neighbors, and attempts to pick up the shards of his newsgathering career. Meanwhile, his newly beloved Sweetberry Park is threatened to its very core-the target of greedy, deceptive developers who want to knock down and gentrify the historic neighborhood where civil rights hero Martin Luther King had been looked after as a child.
Just as tensions reach a boiling point, police report that a deranged employee at the famed Atlanta Memorial Zoo has unleashed seventeen of the world's deadliest snakes into the leafy urban enclave. The entire city panics, unleashing chaos, an accidental shooting, and an unjust incarceration.
With the help of a reclusive former blues songstress and a zany cast of old friends and millennial newcomers, Johnson attempts to save the neighborhood that saved him-with hilarious, and rather dubious, results.
Author: Josh Green
Publisher: Sager Group LLC
Published: 03/20/2025
Pages: 366
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9781958861523
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
About the Author
Green, Josh: - Josh Green is an award-winning journalist, fiction author, and editor whose work has appeared in Atlanta, Garden & Gun, Indianapolis Monthly, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Los Angeles Review, The Baltimore Review, and several anthologies. His first collection of short stories, Dirtyville Rhapsodies, was hailed by Men's Health as a "Best Book for the Beach" and was named a top 10 book of the year by Atlanta. His first novel, Secrets of Ash, garnered a number of accolades, including the Indie Reader Discovery Award for literary fiction and a runner-up placement at the Hollywood Book Festival. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and two daughters. By day, he covers the wild world of Atlanta development and real estate.
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