A feature adaptation of Ann Petry’s novel, The Street, is in the works with Danielle Deadwyler (Till, The Woman in the Yard) set to produce and star, Deadline reports.

Deadwyler is teaming with Alix Madigan and Michael Sherman to develop the project.  Gina Atwater (Westworld) will write the script and serve as executive producer.

The story follows “the harrowing story of young Black woman Lutie Johnson (Deadwyler) and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s.”

In a statement Deadwyler said, “Ann Petry’s The Street has quaked my understanding of motherhood, Black and American family life experiences on how to just get by (historically), and the festering emotions that seed alongside the wilted optimism and dark hope of the American Dream.”