Escape the Thunder

Fat, brutal Josh rules this street of junkies and prostitutes, drunkards and lost souls. Shame and degradation walk hand in hand—seen in the tense faces of its men and the painted faces of its women.
Against this grim background Lonnie Coleman, author of the memorable Clara, weaves a compelling story of Pecola, the kept woman who breaks away from the sadism of Josh to find tenderness and sudden rapture in the arms of Luther, the ex-convict who has come back to Day Street for a strange revenge.