Telegraph Avenue LP: A Novel by Michael Chabon

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because the summer season of 2004 attracts to an in depth, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are nonetheless placing within there—longtime buddies, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland data, a kingdom of used vinyl positioned within the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their other halves, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley start partners, a couple of semilegendary midother halves who have welcomed greater than a thousand newly minted electorate into the dented utopia at whose middle—part tavern, part temple—stands Brokeland.

whilst ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth-richest black man in the us, publicizes plans to build his up to date Dogpile megastore on a close-by stretch of Telegraph road, Nat and Archy fear it method positive doom for their vulnerable little endeavor. meanwhile, Aviva and Gwen additionally in finding themselves stuck up in a combat for their skilled lifestyles, person who exams the bounds of their buddieship. adding some other layer of hardship to the couplescff0478#three9; already tangled lives is the surprise look of Titus Joyner, the teenage son Archy has never stated and the affection of 15-12 months-vintage Julius Jaffecff0478#three9;s life.