Under the rumble of the trains, readers will roar with laughter at the insightfull and hilarious crewroom conversations that also reveal the love and dedication TA workers have for thier jobs. Readers will also gain a new appreciation for the men and women who move the people of the world's greatest city and make the nation's largest transit system work.

Let me first admit that I am obsessed with the people and the place of my youth. Haunted by sweet memories of how their existence enriched my life. These memories are with me everywhere woven in the very fabric of my being. From them there is no escape, I am a willing prisoner of my past in the Amsterdam Projects in New York's mid-town Manhattan. But there are many like me - most of them return to the Projects every two years for the reunion and a chance to reunite with old neighbors and celebrate old times. I can see it in their eyes; these people are also haunted by the exquisite rhapsody...

Each Story is told in the voice of a master story-teller. The lead story "The Man Who Heard the Dead," is a tightly written suspenseful present day tale involving clairvoyance and deception. The main characters are well-educated black professionals who inadvertently uncover foul deeds of the past. The author offers poignant descriptions of the old abandon black churches that dot secondary roads in rural areas of the South. And, an ending that's there...then maybe not.