{"id":44279,"date":"2015-11-27T21:46:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T21:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44279"},"modified":"2016-03-25T20:40:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T20:40:20","slug":"the-old-neighborhood-a-novel%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44279","title":{"rendered":"The Old Neighborhood, A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Old Neighborhood, A Novel<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Curbside Splendor Publishing<\/a>
\nApril 2014
\n502 pages
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1940430003<\/p>\n

Bill Hillmann<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bill Hillmann’s debut novel, The Old Neighborhood<\/em>, is the story of teenager Joe Walsh, the youngest in a large, mixed-race family living in Chicago<\/a>. After Joe witnesses his older brother commit a gangland murder<\/a>, his friends and family drag him down into a pit of violence that reaches a bloody impasse when his elder sister begins dating a rival gang member. The Old Neighborhood<\/em> is both a brutal tale of growing up tough in a mean city, and a beautiful harkening to the heartbreak of youth.<\/p>\n