The ones who don't say they love you : stories /
Maurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to create spaces. These perspectival, character-driven stories center on the margins and are deeply rooted in New Orleanian culture. In "Beg Borrow Steal," a boy relishes time spent helping his father find work after just coming home from prison...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
One World,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Maurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to create spaces. These perspectival, character-driven stories center on the margins and are deeply rooted in New Orleanian culture. In "Beg Borrow Steal," a boy relishes time spent helping his father find work after just coming home from prison, in "Ghetto University," a couple whose been struggling financially turn to crime after hitting rock bottom, in "Before I Let You Go," a woman who's been in NOLA for generations fights to keep her home, in "Fast hands, Fast Feet," an army vet and a runaway teen find companionship while sleeping under a bridge, in "Mercury Forges," a flash fiction piece among several in the collection, a group of men hurriedly make their way to a home where an elderly gentleman lives, trying to reach him before the water from Hurricane Katrina does and in the title story, a young man works the street corners of the French Quarter, trying to achieve a freedom not meant for him. |
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| Physical Description: | 173 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780593133408 0593133404 |