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010 $a 2017952103
020 $a9781555978051 (hbk.) :$cNT$910
040 $aTWTNM$beng$dTWTNM
050 00$aPS3602.R53183$bA6 2018
082 04$a813.6$222
100 1 $aBrinkley, Jamel,$eauthor.
245 12$aA lucky man :$bstories /$cJamel Brinkley.
260 $aMinneapolis, Minnesota :$bGraywolf Press,$c[2018].
300 $a243 p. ;$c24 cm.
500 $a"A Public Space Book.".
505 00$tNo more than a bubble --$tJ'ouvert, 1996 --$tI happy am --$tEverything the mouth eats --$tA family --$tA lucky man --$tInfinite happiness --$tWolf and Rhonda --$tClifton's place.
520 $a"In the nine expansive, searching stories of A lucky man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen intent on proving himself a man through the all-night revel of J'Ouvert can't help but look out for his impressionable younger brother. A pair of college boys on the prowl follow two girls home from a party and have to own the uncomfortable truth of their desires. And at a Capoeira conference, two brothers grapple with how to tell the story of their family, caught in the dance of their painful, fractured history. Jamel Brinkley's stories, in a debut that announces the arrival of a significant new voice, reflect the tenderness and vulnerability of black men and boys whose hopes sometimes betray them, especially in a world shaped by race, gender, and class--where luck may be the greatest fiction of all." --Amazon.com.
650 0$aAfrican American men$vFiction.
650 0$aAfrican American boys$vFiction.
650 0$aShort stories, American$y21st century.
651 0$aBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)$vFiction.
651 0$aBronx (New York, N.Y.)$vFiction.