Staten Island Stories
eBook - ePub

Staten Island Stories

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Staten Island Stories

About this book

A fresh, compelling collection of stories by a serious new voice on the literary scene.

Winner of the Hornblower Award by the New York Society Library, Honorable Mention for the International Latino Book Awards: Best Collection of Short Stories by Empowering Latino Futures

New York City's Staten Island is often described as the forgotten borough. But with Staten Island Stories, Claire Jimenez shines a spotlight on the imagined lives of the islanders. Inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, this collection of loosely linked tragicomic short stories travels across time to explore defining moments in the island's history, from the 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash and the New York City blackout to the growing opioid and heroin crisis, Eric Garner's murder, and the 2016 presidential election.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. The Tale of the Angry Adjunct
  8. What It Is
  9. Great Kills
  10. Eddie and the Dying Fish
  11. The Knight’s Tale
  12. Do Now
  13. Underneath the Water You Could Actually Hear Bells
  14. This One Kid Douglass Got Jumped
  15. You Are a Strange Imitation of a Woman
  16. The Grant Writer’s Tale
  17. Who Would Break the Dark First
  18. As Luck Would Have It
  19. Acknowledgments