Witness : stories / Jamel Brinkley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brinkley, Jamel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

New York (N.Y.).

Interpersonal relations--Fiction.

Interpersonal relations.

Genre:

Short stories.

Domestic fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Physical Description:

226 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

Summary:

"An elegant, stirring, insistent new book bearing out actions taken and not taken, from the acclaimed National Book Award finalist"-- Provided by publisher.

"In these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, a range of characters--from children to grandmothers to ghosts--live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking action. Though they strive to connect, to remember, to stand up for, and to really see each other, they often fall short, and the structures they build around these ambitions and failures shape not only their own futures but the legacies and prospects of their families and their city. In its portraits of families and friendships lost and found, the paradox of intimacy, the long shadow of grief, the meaning of home, Witness enacts its own testimony. Here is a world where fortunes can be made and stolen in just a few generations, where strangers might sometimes show kindness while those we trust--doctors, employers, siblings--too often turn away, where joy comes in snatches: flowers on a windowsill, dancing in the street, glimpsing your purpose, change on the horizon"--Dust jacket flap.

Contents:

Blessed deliverance

The let-out

Comfort

Arrows

Sahar

Bystander

The happiest house on Union Street

That particular Sunday

Bartow Station

Witness.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Schneidman Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780374607036

0374607036

OCLC:

1345216661