At-risk : stories /
Gautier, Amina, 1977-
At-risk : stories / by Amina Gautier. - Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2011. - 1 online resource ([vii], 154 pages) - Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction . - Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. .
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
English.
9780820341323 (electronic bk.) 0820341320 (electronic bk.) 1283267896 9781283267892 9786613267894 6613267899
22573/ctt3q3k94 JSTOR 2AE16CAF-25A6-4C5E-B050-73A2526118E0 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
African American teenagers--Fiction.
Adolescents noirs américains--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
FICTION--General.
FICTION--Short Stories (single author)
African American teenagers.
Electronic books.
Fiction.
PS3607.A976 / A93 2011eb
813/.6
At-risk : stories / by Amina Gautier. - Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2011. - 1 online resource ([vii], 154 pages) - Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction . - Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. .
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
English.
9780820341323 (electronic bk.) 0820341320 (electronic bk.) 1283267896 9781283267892 9786613267894 6613267899
22573/ctt3q3k94 JSTOR 2AE16CAF-25A6-4C5E-B050-73A2526118E0 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
African American teenagers--Fiction.
Adolescents noirs américains--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
FICTION--General.
FICTION--Short Stories (single author)
African American teenagers.
Electronic books.
Fiction.
PS3607.A976 / A93 2011eb
813/.6