Closure
By: edited by Jacob Ross
Series: Inscribe series
Publisher: Inscribe, an imprint of Peepal Tree
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leeds, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781845232887
Subjects: Blacks; Fiction; English Short stories; Black authors
Other titles: Contemporary Black British short stories
Description: This ambitious and intriguing anthology of short stories showcases each author's most challenging work. These works from writers who are happy to describe themselves as Black British, have a rich variety of styles, forms, and themes, from raw realism, the erotic, and elegant economy, to the fanciful, humorous, and the tender.
Table of contents: title: A note from the editor --; title: A bad day for a good man  -- Fred D'Aguiar; title: Here be monsters  -- Karen Onojaife; title: Malik's door  -- Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi; title: The house  -- Tariq Mehmood; title: The weight of four tigers  -- Chantal Oakes; title: Whatever Lola wants  -- Michelle Inniss; title: Clickety-Click  -- Lynne E. Blackwood; title: Getting home : a black urban myth  -- Pete Kalu; title: The Müllerian eminence  -- Leone Ross; title: Chocolate tea  -- Gaylene Gould; title: The age of reason (Coming here)  -- Valda Jackson; title: Piss pals  -- Sai Murray; title: Day trippers  -- Raman Mundair; title: Streamlining  -- Muli Amaye; title: Amber light  -- Sylvia Dickinson; title: From where I come  -- Nanna-Essi Casely-Hayford; title: Secret chamber  -- Akila Richards; title: Breaking glass  -- Louisa Adjoa Parker; title: Works  -- Desiree Reynolds; title: The typewriter  -- Ayesha Siddiqi; title: Skinning up  -- Jacqueline Crooks; title: A cartography of all the names  -- Hana Riaz; title: Hoover Junior  -- Seni Seneviratne; title: My grandmother died with perfect teeth  -- Patrice Lawrence; title: The draw  -- Jacqueline Clarke; title: Confetti for pigeons  -- Mahsuda Snaith; title: Contrary motion  -- Monica Ali; title: Six Saturdays and some version of the truth  -- Koye Oyedeji; title: Randall & Sons  -- Judith Bryan; title: Yoruba man walking -- Bernardine Evaristo.