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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
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Tale of the Angry Adjunct
- What It Is
- Great Kills
- Eddie and the Dying Fish
- The Knight’s Tale
- Do Now
- Underneath the Water You Could Actually Hear Bells
- This One Kid Douglass Got Jumped
- You Are a Strange Imitation of a Woman
- The Grant Writer’s Tale
- Who Would Break the Dark First
- As Luck Would Have It
- Acknowledgments