The Fortress of Solitude

About this book

This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively black despite the first whispers of something that will become known as "gentrification."

• Race relations
• Male friendship
• Teenage boys
• Fiction
• Bildungsromans
• Racial tension
• Graffiti art
• Music as a culture