Home to Harlem by Claude McKay #foliosociety They guide him on a

They guide him on a journey through his past

visited by memories of all she’s left behind

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Home to Harlem by Claude McKay #foliosociety They guide him on aOne of the finest and best known novels of the Harlem Renaissance. Claude McKays first novel, Home to Harlem, was published in 1928 during the height of the Harlem Renaissance. McKay portrays Harlem post WWI, through Jake, an African American longshoreman who deserts the U. S. army and returns to his home in Harlem, and Ray, a Haitian intellectual expatriate. With his use of dialect, McKay portrays these men and other working class characters who try