Training school for Negro girls
By: Camille Acker
Edition: First Feminist Press edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781936932375
Subjects: American Short stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "Acker navigates her characters' lives with humor, heart, and grace. I loved these stories." --Lisa Ko This debut collection is a complicated love letter to Washington, DC, and to those who call it home: a TSA agent who's never flown, a girl braving new worlds to play piano, and a teacher caught up in a mayoral race. These characters navigate life's "training school"--with lessons on gentrification and respectability- and fight to create their own sense of space and self. Camille Acker's writing has appeared in Hazlitt and VICE, among others. Raised in Washington, DC, she currently lives in Chicago.
Table of contents: title: Who we are --; title: Cicada --; title: Everything she wants --; title: Strong men --; title: Final draft of college essay --; title: The ropes --; title: All the things you'll never do --; title: Mambo sauce --; title: Training school for Negro girls --; title: Now, this --; title: You can leave, but it's going to cost you.