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Atlanta's new face: a debut novel examines gentrification.('Them')(Book review)
THEM
By Nathan McCall
Atria, 352 pages
THE SETTING IN NATHAN MCCALL'S debut novel, Them, is a tree-lined street in Atlanta, but the racial drama that unfolds echoes a territorial friction occurring across American cities wherever gentrification takes hold.
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The novel takes place a few blocks from Martin Luther King's boyhood home and Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King was ordained and served as pastor. These serve as reminders that two generations later interracial community remains an elusive dream. McCall presents instead a perverse mutation of that dream--a world where affluent whites with a naive and vaguely missionary mentality bypass Atlanta's Virginia Highlands and Peachtree Avenue and filter into an historically Black neighborhood, satisfied that they are investing while upgrading a seemingly dilapidated community. Physically, the distance between newcomers and established residents is slight, often just the next yard over. Psychologically, it is a chasm.
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