My Summer of Discontent

by Kenneth Walker

Book Overview

"It seems like white folks got it made," says Smokey Bivens, one of the characters in My Summer of Discontent, a collection of short stories by Ken Walker. The stories are set in the inner city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the fifties and sixties. Mercer Bevenue is the narrator in the book, and he recalls how he and his friends navigated growing up impoverished in a city that tried to repress their growth through racism, segregation, and discrimination...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1984566512
• ISBN13: 9781984566515
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Xlibris Us
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"