Cool Machine: A Novel by Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead’s Cool Machine grabbed me from the epigraph, “It’s harder to find a good coffee table than it is to fall in love.” Whitehead is a Picasso of prose, painting pages with ebullient word-pictures. Cool Machine follows Crook Manifesto , which comes after Harlem Shuffle : they comprise the Harlem Trilogy . Ray Carney is the main…