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At-risk : stories / by Amina Gautier.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short FictionPublication details: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource ([vii], 154 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780820341323
  • 0820341320
  • 1283267896
  • 9781283267892
  • 9786613267894
  • 6613267899
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: At-risk.DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 22
LOC classification:
  • PS3607.A976 A93 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The 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
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The ease of living -- Afternoon tea -- Pan is dead -- Push -- Boogiemen -- Dance for me -- Girl of wisdom -- Some other kind of happiness -- Held -- Yearn.

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

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