| Description |
1 online resource (vii unnumbered pages, 154 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
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Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
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| Contents |
Ease of living -- Afternoon tea -- Pan is dead -- Push -- Boogiemen -- Dance for me -- Girl of wisdom -- Some other kind of happiness -- Held -- Yearn. |
| Summary |
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 Jaso. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African American teenagers -- Fiction.
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African American teenagers. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Electronic books.
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Fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gautier, Amina, 1977- At-risk. Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2011 9780820338880 (DLC) 2011010454 (OCoLC)708357885 |
| ISBN |
9780820341323 (electronic book) |
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0820341320 (electronic book) |
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1283267896 |
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9781283267892 |
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9780820338880 |
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0820338885 |
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