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Long Island Purgatory is a touching, funny, memoir with fictional elements that captures the voice of any soon-to-be thirteen-year-old, skeptical of nearing adulthood. Bennie-The-Brain, as some of his classmates and townspeople refer to him, is caught up in the aftermath of the shock waves from the JFK assassination. Perhaps brilliant beyond his years, Bennie is going to face something even stronger than the death of his hero, something that he cannot fathom. This strange but real treatment of racial upheaval and urban transformation in Laurelton, investigates the impact of blockbusting on the lives of Bennie, his family, and the rest of the mostly Jewish town. Blockbusting identifies a practice where real estate agents sold a house by using an all-white block for an African-American family. The worry among the remaining residents has often been known as “white trip”. Lewis represents a widely ignored happening of recent interpersonal record, including his own real-life horrors and agonizing memories. Inside this strikingly candid, vividly written bill of his experience, he can take us behind the views in 1963. We journey with him through both frank and poignant vignettes that convey the real human cost of racism. Long Island Purgatory tells a powerful and deeply personal story that allows us an unprecedented look back at a unhappy little bit of our history.
