TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gautier,Amina
TI  - At-risk: stories 
T2  - Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
SN  - 9780820341323
AV  - PS3607.A976 A93 2011eb
U1  - 813/.6 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Athens
PB  - University of Georgia Press
KW  - African American teenagers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Adolescents noirs américains
KW  - Romans, nouvelles, etc
KW  - FICTION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Short Stories (single author)
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - The ease of living --; Afternoon tea --; Pan is dead --; Push --; Boogiemen --; Dance for me --; Girl of wisdom --; Some other kind of happiness --; Held --; Yearn
N2  - 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
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