Training school for Negro girls /

This debut collection is a complicated love letter to Washington, DC, and to those who call it home, a TSA agent who's never flown, a girl braving new worlds to play piano and a teacher caught up in a mayoral race. These characters navigate life's "training school," with lessons...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Acker, Camille, 1978- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2018.
Subjects:	African American women > Fiction. African American girls > Fiction. Washington (D.C.) > Fiction. FICTION / African American / Women. FICTION / Short Stories (single author) FICTION / Women.

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Summary:	This debut collection is a complicated love letter to Washington, DC, and to those who call it home, a TSA agent who's never flown, a girl braving new worlds to play piano and a teacher caught up in a mayoral race. These characters navigate life's "training school," with lessons on gentrification and respectability, and fight to create their own sense of space and self.
Physical Description:	219 pages : portrait ; 20 cm.
ISBN:	9781936932375 1936932377