With a new introduction by TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage and winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 _ As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime'Ann Petry's first novel, The Street, was a literary event in 1946, praised and translated around the world - the first book by a black woman to sell more than a million copies . . . Her work endures not merely because of the strength of its message but its artistry' NEW YORK TIMES'My favorite type of novel, literary with an astonish ...