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From the writer of Songdogs, a magnificent work of thoughts and history occur the tunnels of New York City. In the first years of the century, Nathan Walker leaves his indigenous Georgia for New York City and the most dangerous job in America. A sandhog, he burrows beneath the East River, digging the tunnel that will bring trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Above ground, the sandhogs - dark-colored, white, Irish, Italian - keep their distance from one another until a magnificent car accident welds a relationship between Walker and his fellow diggers, a relationship that will bless and curse the next three generations. Years later, Treefrog, a homeless man influenced below by way of a shameful solution, endures a punishing winter in his subway nest. In tones which range from bleak to disturbingly funny, Treefrog recounts his strategies of success: getting rid of rats, scavenging for discarded soda pop cans, cleansing in the snow. Between Nathan Walker and Treefrog stretch out 70 years of ill-fated loves and unintended crimes. In a triumph of plotting, both stories fuse to form a tale of family, race, and redemption that is as bold and fabulous as New York City itself. In This Aspect of Lighting, Colum McCann confirms his devote the front rates of modern authors.

Category: Historical