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A PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book In eleven glorious stories, Allan Gurganus, author of the highly acclaimed Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All , gives heart-breaking and hilarious voice to the fears, desires, and triumphs of Americans--black... Read Full Overview

From Allan Gurganus, author of the beloved, bestselling Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All and winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, here are eleven masterful works of short fiction. First seen in... Read Full Overview

More marvelous, memorable characters in the first short story collection by the author of the blockbuster, Oldest Confederate Widow Tells All. A storyteller in the grand tradition . . . Gurganus can tell his stories as well as anyone in our time.--New York Times Book Review.