Flat/White
The strange case of a new immigrant in an old building and things going badly
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Ted Botha
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When journalist Ted Botha moved from South Africa to New York, it was to broaden his horizons. But soon he found himself focusing on just one thing – a crazy building.
To start with, luck was on his side. He landed a job at a hip new magazine, and then found a cheap rental in an old tenement in Harlem. When it came up for sale, he couldn’t believe the price. Several blocks away, apartments were selling for $1million or more, but his was priced at a fraction of that – $10,000.
Then Botha’s luck ran out. A chance to fi x up the dilapidated building laid bare a world of chaos, lies, suspicion, hate, drug dealers, detective work, police raids and death threats. In what had previously felt like a happy, harmonious area, racism reared its ugly head, and Botha’s white South Africanness suddenly became a liability. Things got worse daily, and he wondered if he could ever survive the anarchy inside his building.
In equal parts memoir, comedy and tragedy – not to mention a travelogue into the backstreets of New York, and the grammar that Botha learnt there – Flat/White brings to life a cast of characters and a story you won’t soon forget.
“South African Ted Botha ‘makes it’ in the New York no tourist and few locals ever see. A beautiful, heartfelt memoir of life in a hidden city” – Douglas Rogers, author of The Last Resort