Title: The Gates
Description: Primo Thomas, a teacher of English to new immigrants, faces the second half of his life. His parents, a black physician and his Italian-American wife, both from Harlem, died when he was a young man; his marriage has recently ended; hardly anything remains of the Lower East Side neighborhood in which he came of age. He has always drawn a sense of himself from the people gathered around him - now the mirror of the changing, hallucinatory world refuses to reflect his image back.
Subjects: African Americans, Americans, Fiction, Italian Americans, Teachers, Fiction, general, New york (n.y.), fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Italian americans, fiction, Teachers, fiction, Man-woman relationships, Travel, Families
Places: Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.), Nicaragua