Nightwood Middle Eastern Harlem couldn't be any more

Harlem couldn't be any more different than the Texas he moved away from

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Jamie's college dreams will take her far from her hometown

Nightwood Middle Eastern Harlem couldn't be any moreNightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (Times Literary Supplement). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna a world in which the boundaries of class, religion, and sexuality are bold but surprisingly porous. The outsized characters who