Black flies
Subtitle: a novel
By: Shannon Burke.
Publisher: Soft Skull Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Brooklyn; [Berkeley, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781593761912
Subjects: Emergency medical technicians -- Fiction.; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In his first year as an inner-city paramedic, Ollie Cross makes a morally challenging decision to allow a brain-damaged and HIV-positive newborn to die, a choice that leads to the termination and suicide of his partner.