Magic Street
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Magic Street (ISBN 0-345-41689-9) is a novel by Orson Scott Card published in 2005 by Del Rey Books. This urban fantasy follows the magical events in the Baldwin Hills section of contemporary Los Angeles, including the life of protagonist Mack Street, his foster brother Cecil Tucker, a trickster identified variously as Bag Man, Puck, Mr. Christmas, and numerous other members of this upscale community of African-Americans.
The storyline frequently refers to William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and elements of Western and European folklore. In the author's note, Card credits friend Roland Bernard Brown with goading him into writing a novel featuring a black hero, and "thanks to Queen Latifah for putting [the Yolanda White character] on a motorcycle."
