War of Streets and Houses Tanna Tucker Acme Novelty Library

Acme Novelty Library

This uncomfortable and compelling memoir is an important story of a teen’s awakening to the racial insularity of the upper class

The strength of the story is its ability to show these contradictions not just as youthful weaknesses or mistakes

Pommepuy and Sébastien Cosset

so he can die where he grew up

War of Streets and Houses Tanna Tucker Acme Novelty LibraryBy Sophie Yanow. Published by Uncivilized Books. Softcover, 60 pages, B&W, 2014. The War of Streets & Houses is named after General Thomas Bugeaud's 19th century essay; the first manual for the preparation and conduct of urban warfare. The text greatly influenced Baron Haussmann's famous re development of Paris, and the planning of modern cities. In 2012 the author participated in the massive Montreal student strikes. In the midst of protesting crowds