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Before you suffocate your own fool self

Author: Danielle Evans
Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2010.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Fearless, funny, and ultimately tender, Evans's stories offer a bold new perspective on the experience of being young and African-American or mixed-race in modern-day America.
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Genre/Form: Short stories
Short story genre
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Danielle Evans
ISBN: 9781594487699 1594487693 9781101443477 1101443472
OCLC Number: 535490512
Description: 232 pages ; 22 cm
Contents: Virgins --
Snakes --
Harvest --
Someone ought to tell her there's nowhere to go --
The king of a vast empire --
Jellyfish --
Wherever you go, there you are --
Robert E. Lee is dead.
Responsibility: Danielle Evans.
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Fearless, funny, and ultimately tender, Evans's stories offer a bold new perspective on the experience of being young and African-American or mixed-race in modern-day America.

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