Toward Camden

“Mercy Romero’s Toward Camden is a profoundly moving and necessary meditation on Camden, a city marked by abandonment, dispossession, and resistance. In weaving familial narratives with the lives and deaths in and of Camden, Romero opens possibilities for us to consider the cultural geographies of a city and a people attending to survival. A tender, haunting, and critical work, Toward Camden has implications for our considerations of home, capitalism, gentrification, loss, and love.” — Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, author of Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature