โ Patricia Cornwell
๐ Fiction
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1944
๐ Penguin
๐ English
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๐ 1 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
At-risk: stories
โ Scribed by Amina Gautier
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Year
- 2011;2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 154 KB
- Edition
- Paperback edition
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
In Amina Gautier's Brooklyn, some kids make it and some kids don't, but not in simple ways or for stereotypical reasons. Gautier's stories explore the lives of young African Americans who might all be classified as "at-risk," yet who encounter different opportunities and dangers in their particular neighborhoods and schools and who see life through the lens of different family experiences.
Gautier's focus is on quiet daily moments, even in extraordinary lives; her characters do not stand as emblems of a subculture but live and breathe as people. In "The Ease of Living," the young teen Jason is sent down south to spend the summer with his grandfather after witnessing the double murder of his two best friends, and he is not happy about it. A season of sneaking into as many movies as possible on one ticket or dunking girls at the pool promises to turn into a summer of shower chairs and the smell of Ben-Gay in the unimaginably backwoods town of Tallahassee. In "Pan Is Dead," two...
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