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The last suspicious holdout : stories

Call Number

  • FICTION HUBB (CEN)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Amistad 35, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]

Physical Description

207 pages ; 22 cm.

Summary

A collection of short stories captures powerful and poignant moments in everyday lives of African American families, friends, and neighbors in the years spanning from the beginning of the Clinton presidency to the eve of Barack Obama's election.

Contents

  • Flip lady
  • Henry
  • Bitch: an etymology of family values
  • There he go
  • False cognates
  • Yams
  • Houston and the blinking what
  • Five people who crave sauce
  • The last suspicious holdout
  • Night nurses
  • Trash
  • Crack babies!
  • Paulie Sparks.

Added Authors

Ladee Hubbard

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