The ones who don't say they love you : stories / Maurice Carlos Ruffin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruffin, Maurice Carlos, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Orleans (La.)--Fiction.

New Orleans (La.).

Louisiana--New Orleans.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

173 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Ones who do not say they love you

Place of Publication:

New York : One World, [2021]

Summary:

"Maurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to create spaces. These perspectival, character-driven stories center on the margins and are deeply rooted in New Orleanian culture. In "Beg Borrow Steal," a boy relishes time spent helping his father find work after just coming home from prison; in "Ghetto University," a couple whose been struggling financially turn to crime after hitting rock bottom; in "Before I Let You Go," a woman who's been in NOLA for generations fights to keep her home; in "Fast hands, Fast Feet," an army vet and a runaway teen find companionship while sleeping under a bridge; in "Mercury Forges," a flash fiction piece among several in the collection, a group of men hurriedly make their way to a home where an elderly gentleman lives, trying to reach him before the water from Hurricane Katrina does; and in the title story, a young man works the street corners of the French Quarter, trying to achieve a freedom not meant for him"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The ones who don't say they love you

Cocoon

Beg borrow steal

Mercury forges

Caesara Pittman, or a Negress of God

Bigsby

Rhinoceros

Ghetto University

Token

The pie man

The places I couldn't go

Spinning

Fast hands, fast feet

Election

The sparer

Catch what you can

Zimmermann

Glamour work

Before I let go.

Other Format:

Online version: Ruffin, Maurice Carlos. The ones who don't say they love you.

ISBN:

9780593133408

0593133404

OCLC:

1202732758