Free : and other stories / Anika Nailah.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nailah, Anika.

Contributor:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Social life and customs--Fiction.

United States.

Manners and customs.

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

14 unnumbered pages, 225 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm

Edition:

First Harlem Moon trade paperback edition.

Distribution:

New York : Broadway Books.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harlem Moon, 2003.

Summary:

The stories in "Free" offer a moving, strikingly original perspective on how cultural experiences and social assumptions impact lives. In probing the interior landscapes behind the everyday faces her characters assume, Nailah brilliantly exposes the injustices and struggles African Americans confront, the skills they develop in order to survive, and the psychological and spiritual costs of survival.

Contents:

Prologue

Trudy

Four

My side of the story

The ride

Professor

Sunday visit

Bucket

Deena

French

Alice & Jesse

Inside out

Joey falling

Jarvis

Free

Epilogue.

Notes:

Originally published in hardcover by Doubleday in 2002.

"Reading Group companion"--Cover.

"First Harlem Moon trade paperback edition published 2003."

"Designed by Donna Sinisgalli."

"Jacket design by Rodrigo Corral. Jacket art © Betye Saar ..."

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy has telephone number of Gwen written on back cover.

ISBN:

0767908384

9780767908382

OCLC:

51554146