In Tanya Hamilton's impressively atmospheric debut, "Night Catches Us," Marcus returns to his Philadelphia neighborhood from a long absence. Played by Anthony Mackie, the slim, confident Marcus is handsome, laconic, uncowed.
It is 1976, the Bicentennial summer, and presidential candidate Jimmy Carter's voice floats from radios and televisions, pledging to give government back to the people. The Philly neighborhood Marcus returns to for his father's funeral is urban but also verdant. The Great Migration of blacks from the South never completely shook off the dust of the rural in cities like Chicago and Cleveland, Baltimore and Philly.
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