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Author Gautier, Amina, 1977-

Title At-risk : stories / by Amina Gautier.

Publication Info. Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2011]
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Description 1 online resource ([vii], 154 pages).
Series Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
Note Print version record.
Contents The ease of living -- Afternoon tea -- Pan is dead -- Push -- Boogiemen -- Dance for me -- Girl of wisdom -- Some other kind of happiness -- Held -- Yearn.
Summary 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.
Subject African American teenagers -- Fiction.
FICTION -- General.
FICTION -- Short Stories (single author)
African American teenagers. (OCoLC)fst00799406
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Gautier, Amina, 1977- At-risk. Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2011 9780820338880 (DLC) 2011010454 (OCoLC)708357885
ISBN 9780820341323 (electronic bk.)
0820341320 (electronic bk.)
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