![]() I could also say it’s about the corrupting pursuit of money, or about how difficult it is to live according to your ideals-a struggle shared by Michael Hudson and his foil, a private investigator named Phil Ornazian. Notice that I didn’t say The Man Who Came Uptown was a novel about gentrification. The Man Who Came Uptown wrestles with gentrification on every page, and as both a reader and a Washingtonian, so do I. I’m delighted by seeing my city on paper, of course. The hero, Michael Hudson, orders Elmore Leonard novels from Upshur Street Books, where I used to work. How could I be, when his newest novel, The Man Who Came Uptown, is set ten blocks from my apartment? Its characters eat at my favorite Sichuan restaurant and drink at the bar where my boyfriend plays darts. I’m not a neutral reader of George Pelecanos. ![]()
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