Diana - reviewed on 9/11/2005 + 35 more book reviews

John Pellam made a name for himself as a director before a stint in San Quentin took him off the fast track. Since his release he's been shooting a documentary about New York's Hell's Kitchen, which he hopes will propel him back into the career that skidded south after he ran afoul of the law. Pellam has found the star of his new film, one Ettie Washington, who has lived in the neighborhood for decades and is the perfect voice to tell the story of an area that's losing its old-time seediness to urban gentrification. But then Ettie's tenement goes up in a blaze that kills a small boy and puts her right in the public eye--as a suspect.

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