cover image All-Bright Court

All-Bright Court

Connie Rose Porter. Harper Perennial, $10 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-06-097498-5

Black steelworkers and their families, who have moved from the South to All-Bright Court, a tenement near a steel mill outside Buffalo, N.Y., are the focus of Porter's poignant but loosely structured first novel. (Aug.)