Neighbors and Other Stories (Faber Editions)
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Neighbors and Other Stories (Faber Editions)

'Breathtaking' - Tayari Jones; 'Brilliant' - Damon Galgut

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eBook - ePub

Neighbors and Other Stories (Faber Editions)

'Breathtaking' - Tayari Jones; 'Brilliant' - Damon Galgut

About this book

'This breathtaking collection is a marvel.' Tayari Jones
'Astute, brilliantly observed, timeless:' Jackie Kay
'Her precocious and brilliant talent hasn't aged at all.' Damon Galgut
'Exquisite ... These stories are all gems.' Mendez
'You hold your breath, completely at her mercy.' Lucy Caldwell

And she was becoming frightened too, looking at all those white faces pressed against the windowpanes.


One Black family comes under attack as their little boy prepares to start at an all-white school.
Friends plan a protest sit-in at the Rose Crest Tea Room, only to be arrested.
The first Black student - always the 'Experiment' - retreats into her closet at a newly integrated college.
And when a social worker enters a secluded woodland cabin, she meets the fate of all visitors . . .

Tragically killed aged twenty-two in 1966, Diane Oliver's masterly stories resonate today with renewed urgency. Steeped in the nightmarish horror of life for the Black community in the Jim Crow-era American South, these chilling tales explore toxic racism and the human toll of activism for 'the cause' with heartbreaking empathy and wisdom. Depicting African American families whole and broken, daily injustices and life-threatening political struggle, Neighbors restores a lost star to the twentieth-century literary canon.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9780571386093
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. LandingPage
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword by Tayari Jones
  5. Neighbors
  6. The Closet on the Top Floor
  7. Before Twilight
  8. Health Service
  9. Mint Juleps Not Served Here
  10. Key to the City
  11. The Visitor
  12. Banago Kalt
  13. When the Apples Are Ripe
  14. Traffic Jam
  15. “No Brown Sugar in Anybody’s Milk”
  16. Frozen Voices
  17. Our Trip to the Nature Museum
  18. Spiders Cry Without Tears
  19. Also in Faber Editions
  20. About the Authors
  21. Copyright