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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruffin, Maurice Carlos (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : One World, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
New Orleans (La.) > Fiction.
FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / African American & Black / General.
Table of Contents:
  • The ones who don't say they love you
  • Cocoon
  • Beg borrow steal
  • Mercury forges
  • Caesara Pittman, or a Negress of God
  • Bigsby
  • Rhinoceros
  • Ghetto University
  • Token
  • The pie man
  • The places I couldn't go
  • Spinning
  • Fast hands, fast feet
  • Election
  • The sparer
  • Catch what you can
  • Zimmermann
  • Glamour work
  • Before I let go.