A place between stations
Subtitle: stories
By: by Stephanie Allen.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Description: "A Place between Stations explores the lives of African American characters against the ever-present backdrop of race, but with the myriad complexities of individual minds and souls in the foreground.".

"Two college students, bound by an intense but uneasy friendship, take an increasingly dangerous road trip through Florida. A widow faces her doubts about her long-dead husband by reliving an odd series of train rides she took along the Hudson River shoreline in the 1950s. An angry, fatherless girl roams a city at night, searching for an escape from the ambiguities of childhood.

George Mattie, loner and reluctant guide, leads a misfit nineteenth-century circus caravan on an ill-fated journey through the northern Connecticut woods. In A Place between Stations, Stephanie Allen enlarges contemporary notions of what African American lives can be."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Carved in vinyl; title: Mud show; title: Close to the body; title: Souvenir; title: Marisol's things; title: Keep looking; title: Passage; title: Saint Sebastian Street; title: Yearbook; title: Behind the black curtain; title: A place between stations.