Title: The mitt man
First published: 1999
Description: Expertly evoking black life in the South in the late 1920s, The Mitt Man begins with the picaresque tale of a small-time New Orleans hustler named King Fish. This man is better at preaching than picking pockets, and it is getting caught while trying to lift the wallet of a wealthy white man that sets him on the path to his destiny - a complex road that leads him from the pavement to the pulpit and, ultimately, to the penitentiary.

Once in jail, King Fish meets a brash young slickster from New York named Jimmie Lamar. King Fish decides that Jimmie is the perfect pupil for his lessons in the art of the con game - and together they devise a brilliant swindle for Jimmie to take to the streets of Harlem. But when he arrives in New York, young Jimmie gets much more than he bargained for...
Subjects: Fiction, Criminals, African Americans, New York Times reviewed, African americans, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, New orleans (la.), fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Louisiana, fiction, History
Places: New Orleans (La.)
LC classification: PS3570.A9462 M58 1999