Free, open-access Ebook version of Claude McKay's "Home to Harlem" with .txt, .pdf, and .epub versions

Home to Harlem, first novel by Claude McKay, published in 1928. In it and its sequel, Banjo, McKay attempted to capture the vitality of the black vagabonds of urban America and Europe. Jake Brown, the protagonist of Home to Harlem, deserts the U.S. Army during World War I and lives in London until a race riot inspires him to return to Harlem.

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Jun 18, 2022 · Originally published: New York : Harper, 1928. With new introd.

Home to Harlem, Claude McKay’s 1927 novel set in the Harlem underworld, is the story of Jake Brown, an attractive African American who deserts the US military during World War I in France because he is forced to be a menial laborer rather than a soldier.

While it lacks the fame of something like Their Eyes Were Watching God, Home to Harlem is a vital chronicle of the lives of low status blacks in the cultural Mecca of 1920s Harlem. McKay's protagonist, Jake, is, in some ways, the ideal representation of the common man of Harlem.