Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781101439470 (1101439475)
Publish date: September 23rd 2010
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
African American,
Contemporary,
Short Stories,
Race
I liked these and I liked how, even though there were people in terrible situations at some points, there were still characters who were nice. Lots of moments that acted as grace notes, where humanity came through, but it is not inspirational fiction in that way, just realistic fiction.
I liked these and I liked how, even though there were people in terrible situations at some points, there were still characters who were nice. Lots of moments that acted as grace notes, where humanity came through, but it is not inspirational fiction in that way, just realistic fiction.
This book has a collection of 8 short stories. These are the following: "Virgins," "Snakes," "Harvest," "Someone Ought to Tell Her There's Nowhere to Go," "The King of a Vast Empire," "Jellyfish," "Wherever You Go, There You Are," and "Robert E. Lee is Dead."If I have to pick my favorite short stor...
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self is great collection of short stories full of angst, longing and love that I found complex and rich. I did feel abandoned by some of the tales, feeling as if they shouldn't have ended at those particular points. But the winners for me – "Snakes", "Where Ever Yo...
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