Holding pattern
Subtitle: stories
By: Jeffery Renard Allen.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: St. Paul, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781555975098
Subjects: African American families -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Short stories
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Allen melds gritty urban life and magical realism in his first collection (after the novel Rails Under My Back). At times, the combination works-in the title story, full of contemporary slang, a character grows wings, but instead of ethereal white feathers, they are dried up and brown and crusty, like some fried chicken wings.
Table of contents: title: Bread and the land; title: Dog tags; title: Toilet training; title: Same; title: Holding pattern; title: Shimmy; title: The near remote; title: The green apocalypse; title: Mississippi story; title: It shall be again.