Book Review: The Long Night, by Julian Mayfield

This is part of the continuing series of random book reviews that'll be nothing like a New York Times book review. Gone is the ten thousand word analysis. Instead, here is a book review like you'd tell your friends.




The book: Julian Mayfield's The Long Night.

Really brief book synopsis (without giving too much away)--

A kid has to pick up some money his mother won in a Harlem neighborhood lottery. He loses it to bullies. He spends all night on the streets trying to figure out ways to earn the money back before going home. He comes across racists, pedophiles, and alcoholics along the way.

It's like your worst day ever in grade school described in fewer than 200 pages.