Blue Talk and Love

✍ Scribed by Sullivan, Mecca Jamilah

• Book ID: 109284535
• Publisher: Riverdale Avenue Books
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 316 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781626011618

✦ Synopsis

Blue Talk and Love's "voice, despite material that seems franklycontemporary, is paradoxically lyrical, nearly Faulknerian."�Rick Moody, judge for the American Short Fiction Short Story ContestBlue Talk and Love tells the stories of girls and women of color navigating the moods and mazes of urban daily life. Set in various enclaves of New York City � including the middle-class Hamilton Heights section of Harlem, the black queer social world of the West Village, the Spanish-speaking borderland between Harlem and Washington Heights, and historic Tin Pan Alley � the collection uses magic realism, historical fiction, satire and more to highlight young black women's inner lives.The storylines range widely: a big-bodied teenage girl from Harlem discovers her sexuality in the midst of racial tensions at her Upper East Side school; four young women from Newark, New Jersey, are charged with assaulting the man who threatens to rape them; a pair of conjoined black female twins born into...