Drinking coffee elsewhere / ZZ Packer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Packer, ZZ.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

African American women--Fiction.

African American women.

Young women--Fiction.

Young women.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 238 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc., 2003.

Summary:

Already an award-winning writer, ZZ Packer now shares with us her long-awaited debut, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. Her impressive range and talent are abundantly evident: Packer dazzles with her command of language, surprising and delighting us with unexpected turns and indelible images, as she takes us into the lives of characters on the periphery, unsure of where they belong. We meet a Brownie troop of black girls who are confronted with a troop of white girls; a young man who goes with his father to the Million Man March and must decide where his allegiance lies; an international group of drifters in Japan, who are starving, unable to find work; a girl in a Baltimore ghetto who has dreams of the larger world she has seen only on the screens in the television store nearby, where the Lithuanian shopkeeper holds out hope for attaining his own American Dream. With penetrating insight that belies her youth -- she was only nineteen years old when Seventeen magazine printed her first published story -- ZZ Packer helps us see the world with a clearer vision. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere is a striking performance -- fresh, versatile, and captivating. It introduces us to an arresting and unforgettable new voice.

Contents:

Brownies

Every tongue shall confess

Our Lady of Peace

The ant of the self

Drinking coffee elsewhere

Speaking in tongues

Geese

Doris is coming.

Notes:

"Book design by Stephanie Huntwork."

"Jacket design by Lisa Amoroso."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has "Today's Book Club" on front cover of dustjacket.

ISBN:

1573222348

OCLC:

50198870