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I Got Somebody in Staunton |
| Stories |
| William Henry Lewis ISBN:
0060536667
Format: Paperback, 240pp
Pub. Date: April 2006
Publisher: Amistad Press
BBP Sales Rank: 165,437
List Price: $12.95
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"Rossonian Days" follows a Kansas City jazz troupe to a gig in Denver, where
they hope to strike it big. This story, itself a swinging riff, is also a
humbling chronicle of the evolution of jazz and an incisive look at the history
of America's racial divide. In "Potcakes," Carlos Stubbs is troubled and weary
in the midst of paradise, obsessed with the incessant barking of dogs. He has a
degree he's not using and a woman he's afraid to love. Time is passing, and he
must decide whether he'll languish or thrive. "Kudzu" reunites a couple whose
sweetly sexual relationship comes to an end when Evvie, a bohemian free spirit,
"drove west, drove north, away from here" in search of something more
compelling than her small Southern town could offer. And in the title story, "I
Got Somebody in Staunton," a Black college professor, haunted by his dying
uncle Ize's memories of lynchings and the ways of the old South, flirts with
danger by giving a ride to an enigmatic young White woman whose long, blond
hair is twisting into dreads.
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