num_pages: 399
description: Edward P. Jones, a prodigy of the short story, returns to the form that first won him praise in this new collection of stories, All Aunt Hagar's Children. Here he turns an unflinching eye to the men, women, and children caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations that await them in the city, people who in Jones's masterful hands emerge as fully human and morally complex. With the legacy of slavery just a stone's throw behind them and the future uncertain, Jones's cornucopia of characters will haunt readers for years to come.
language: English
title: All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
titlecomplete: All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
genres: Short Stories, Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Literature, Race, Collections, African American, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 2088
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: O. Henry Award
category: 'Old Boys, Old Girls', awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Amistad Press