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Bed-Stuy Searchlight

A small-scale daily newspaper, this publication is a fixture of the local neighborhood culture in the novel. Its persistence argues in its favor; its absence is noted as cause for concern. Its name evokes revelation of truth, fittingly.

Bodegas

These shops seem to permeate Brooklyn and other boroughs. Acting as something of a combination of convenience store, deli, and community center, they are archetypal parts of depictions of the primary setting of the novel, offering a sense of normalcy and place.

Columbia University

A preeminent institution of higher learning in the primary location of the novel, this school is notable for the quality of its programs and the size of its holdings, academic and financial. It is, in a sense, an encapsulation of higher socioeconomic strata.

Corpuscle

Defined in the novel as corpse with another spirit forcibly bound to it, this creature is the result of...

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