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The crisscrossing stories of Mark, a white devout Christian who sells his suburban home to move to Baltimore's inner city, and Nicole, a black mother determined to leave West Baltimore for the suburbs, chronicle how the region became so deeply segregated and why these fault lines persist today. Mark and Nicole personify the enormous disparities in access to safe housing, educational opportunities, and decent jobs. As these characters pack up their lives and change places, journalist Lawrence Lanahan examines what it will take to save our cities and communities: Do we put money into poor, segregated neighborhoods? Or do we move families out into areas with more opportunity? This eye-opening account of how a city creates its black, white, rich, and poor spaces suggests that these problems are not intractable but that they are destined to persist until each of us--despite living in separate worlds--understands that we have something at stake.

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Lawrence Lanahan is an award-winning journalist and author whose work has appeared on Colorlines, NPR's Morning Edition, and Al-Jazeera America. A recipient of the Carey Institute's Logan Nonfiction Fellowship as well as the Columbia University's DuPont Award, he currently resides in Baltimore. Walter Dixon is a media veteran with over twenty years of experience. Having a strong theatre and performing arts background, he has voiced numerous commercials and animated characters. He has recently become a full-time narrator and has recorded more than fifty audiobooks in a range of genres including religion, politics, and children's stories.

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