A Gathering of flowers
Subtitle: stories about being young in America
By: edited by Joyce Carol Thomas
Edition: 1st Harper Keypoint ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780064470827
Copyright date: 1990
Subjects: American Short stories; Short stories
Description: A collection of eleven short stories depicting what it is like to be young in America, exploring such diverse cultures as urban San Francisco, a Chippewa Indian reservation, and a Latino barrio in Chicago.
Table of contents: title: Almost a whole trickster / Gerald Vizenor; title: The Harringtons' daughter / Lois Lowry; title: Going for the moon / Al Young; title: Christmas story of the golden cockroach / Ana Castillo; title: Autumn rose / Kevin Kyung; title: Young Reverend Zelma Lee Moses / Joyce Carol Thomas; title: First love / Gary Soto; title: After the war / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston; title: Upstream / Gerald Haslam; title: Twisters and shouters / Maxine Hong Kingston; title: Colony / Rick Wernli.