A black, motherless loner tries to come to terms with her radically unfamiliar surroundings as a Yale freshman; 14-year-old church girl Tia runs away to the big city; a bright young man makes a last-ditch attempt to understand his loser father on the Million Man March in Washington DC; at summer camp, an all-black Brownie troop decide to teach a troop of white Brownies a lesson for a racial insult they think they overheard.
Teeming with life, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere is a collection that explores what it is to be humanNever neatly resolved, these provocative and unforgettable stories resonate with honesty and wry humour and introduce us to a major new talent.
Format |
Häftad |
Omfång |
256 sidor |
Språk |
Engelska |
Förlag |
Canongate Books |
Utgivningsdatum |
2005-02-10 |
ISBN |
9781841955568 |