What is Urban Fiction?
Urban fiction is a genre of literature that features life on the streets. It is a genre that portrays city life with gritty realism, where the story's focus is on the life in the inner city, generally with a grim, dark tone.
Usually, it includes hard subjects such as drug use, gangs, sex, poverty, and violence. Although not all urban fiction takes place in the United States, the setting is usually a large American city. There is also urban fantasy, where vampires and monsters run in the city. Dark urban novels are a type of detective novel in which, more than the resolution of the crime per se, the most interesting thing is the portrayal of the moral ambiguity of the characters and the society in which they move. In crime novels, the line between good and evil is very blurred, and all the characters are somewhat decadent.
