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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Oliver, Diane, 1943-1966.     Subjects     Blacks -- Social conditions -- To 1964 -- Fiction.     Families, Black -- Fiction.     Racism against Black people -- Fiction.     Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Oliver, Diane, 1943-1966.       by title:      Neighbors and other ...       by call number:      FICTION OLI     Search the Web     Oliver, Diane, 1943-1966.     Blacks -- Social conditions -- To 1964 -- Fiction.     Families, Black -- Fiction.     Racism against Black people -- Fiction.     Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Neighbors and other stories / Diane Oliver. by Oliver, Diane, 1943-1966. Grove Press, 2024. Call #: FICTION OLI Subjects Blacks -- Social conditions -- To 1964 -- Fiction.   Families, Black -- Fiction.   Racism against Black people -- Fiction.   Interpersonal relations -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780802161314 (hc.) Edition:  1st Grove Atlantic hardcover ed. Description:  xvi, 297 p. ; 22 cm. Contents:  Neighbors -- The closet on the top floor -- Before twilight -- Health service -- Mint juleps not served here -- Key to the city -- The visitor -- Banago kalt -- When the apples are ripe -- Traffic jam -- "No brown sugar in anybody's milk" -- Frozen voices -- Our trip to the nature museum -- Spiders cry without tears. Summary:  "A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature. A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of twenty-two, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that explore race and racism in 1950s and '60s America. In this first and only collection by a masterful storyteller finally taking her rightful place in the canon, Oliver's insightful stories reverberate into the present day. There's the nightmarish "The Closet on the Top Floor" in which Winifred, the first Black student at her newly integrated college, starts to physically disappear; "Mint Juleps Not Served Here" where a couple living deep in a forest with their son go to bloody lengths to protect him; "Spiders Cry Without Tears," in which a couple, Meg and Walt, are confronted by prejudices of interracial and extramarital love; and the titular story that follows a nervous older sister the night before her brother is set to desegregate his school. These are incisive and intimate portraits of Families, Black in everyday moments of anxiety and crisis that look at how they use agency to navigate their predicaments. As much a social and historical document as it is a taut, engrossing collection, Neighbors is an exceptional literary feat from a crucial once-lost figure of letters"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Black fiction. Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. Historical fiction Short stories. Holds:  2   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION OLI Adult books Checked out Jul 18, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Black Fiction FICTION OLI Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList

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