In Price's novel, a Harlem apartment building collapses, upending the lives of its residents, including a photographer, a funeral director and a 42-year-old man who feels he has little to live for.

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Foreign laborers, many from Thailand, are tending fields and livestock in an area Israel has declared off-limits to its own ...