The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle fiction turning comfort and joy into

turning comfort and joy into terror and dread

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and they have moved back to their hometown with their son

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The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle fiction turning comfort and joy intoPeople move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive