num_pages: 13
description: In fourteen sublime stories, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World shows that his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever.Returning to the city that inspired his first prizewinning book, Lost in the City, Jones has filled this new collection with people who call Washington, D.C., home. Yet it is not the city's power brokers that most concern him but rather its ordinary citizens. All Aunt Hagar's Children 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, whether they are country folk used to getting up with the chickens or people with centuries of education behind them. 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
titlecomplete: All Aunt Hagar's Children
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: HarperAudio