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Wallace Ford explodes onto the fiction scene with a rare and revealing glimpse into the world of New York's African-American elite. . .When Sture Jorgenson migrated from Norway to New York, he knew he was coming to the city of eight million stories—but he had no idea what fate had in store for him. His rise from dishwasher at the Water Club to part-owner of a hotspot restaurant named for tragic legend Dorothy Dandridge has him rubbing elbows with many powerful people, but when Sture gains entrée into "The Pride," he becomes part of that coterie of New York's most accomplished black men and women, the lions and lionesses whose lives intersect on Wall Street, in Harlem, in the Hamptons, and on Park Avenue. . .Despite the haunting deaths of those closest to him, Paul Taylor has charged ahead, driven by ambition, demons—and dreams for his beloved baby son. A lawyer, businessman, patron of the Water Club, part-owner of Dorothy's restaurant, and charter member of...Pages of The Pride :