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Chapters (43)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. Prologue
  5. OneThe Square
  6. TwoIn War
  7. ThreeLease Compliant
  8. FourTonya from the Ten
  9. FiveSummer School
  10. SixSweeps
  11. SevenMakeovers
  12. EightBombs Bursting in Air
  13. NineProject Kids
  14. TenName-Calling
  15. ElevenCowboy Camp
  16. Twelve1502
  17. ThirteenThe Elevator
  18. Fourteen301
  19. Fifteen304
  20. SixteenSanctuary
  21. SeventeenPlans
  22. EighteenSalvation
  23. NineteenThe Wild
  24. TwentyLivestock
  25. Twenty-OneLast Tag
  26. Twenty-TwoThe Vanishing
  27. Twenty-ThreeAway
  28. Twenty-FourSheeping
  29. Twenty-FiveProject Mentality
  30. Twenty-SixLetter to Meechie
  31. Twenty-SevenA Reunion
  32. Twenty-EightRelocating
  33. Twenty-NineThe Whole Story
  34. ThirtyThe Happiest Place
  35. Thirty-OneEd’s House
  36. Thirty-TwoWhat Mamas Do
  37. Thirty-ThreeThe Living & the Dead
  38. Thirty-FourHaunted
  39. Thirty-FiveSnapshots
  40. Thirty-SixInvitations
  41. Acknowledgments
  42. About the Author
  43. About the Publisher

The NYC Crew: My editor, Liz Stein, for asking all the right questions during the editorial process, letting me dream a bit, and listening to my desires for this work. Thanks to the entire Last Summer on State Street team at William Morrow/HarperCollins: I appreciate all that you’ve done to bring this book to the world! And to the fiercely talented, passionate, personable woman whom I get to call my agent, Meredith Kaffel Simonoff: you are one of a kind and more than I could ever wish for.

Drei and Cam for being there through it all: the drafts, the readings, the doubts, the tears, the fatigue. Your love, encouragement, and friendship were necessary ingredients in this journey.

Shune, my original partner in crime, for showing me what strength looks like and believing in me and my writing for as long as I can remember.

The women in my family who taught me all about love and affection: Mama, Grandma, Yvonne, Inez, and Lisa: so many, many, thanks!

About the Author

TOYA WOLFE was born and raised in the (now-demolished) Robert Taylor Homes on Chicago’s South Side. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago with a Dwight W. Follett Merit Award. Her stories have appeared in African Voices, Chicago Journal, Chicago Reader, Hair Trigger 27, and Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas. She is the recipient of the Zora Neale Hurston-Bessie Head Fiction Award, the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation Short Story Competition, and the Betty Shiflett/John Schultz Short Story Award. Last Summer on State Street is her debut novel.

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