![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Humorous, poignant, perceptive, and full of grace, Kathleen Collins’s stories masterfully blend the quotidian and the profound in a personal, intimate way, exploring deep, far-reaching issues-race, gender, family, and sexuality-that shape the ordinary moments in our lives.Ĭollins’s work seamlessly integrates the African-American experience in her characters’ lives, creating rich, devastatingly familiar, full-bodied men, women, and children who transcend the symbolic, penetrating both the reader’s head and heart. Quick SynopsisĪ never-before-published collection of stories from a brilliant yet little known African American artist and filmmaker, Kathleen Collins. If you’d like a quick primer on Collins, in 2016 her daughter Nina Lorez Collins shares with Vogue Magazine how she brought her mother’s work out of an old steamer trunk and back in front of audiences so it could finally be appreciated. I decided to quickly scan the shelves (there aren’t that many) to see if there were any other books I could grab for this reading challenge while I was there and this was one of the first books I saw. I went to my local library (which is generally a giant mess, and more specifically a homeless person hangout) to get a new library card and pick up some books I had on hold. ![]()
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