Free and Other Stories
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: January 15, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780385502931
First sentence: "You cheated me out of fifty cents," the pillbox hat white woman said, sniffing indignantly, anxiously awaiting the scent of a lie.
Description: ""Trudy" depicts a battle of wills between a black salesclerk and a white customer, shining a harsh light on the bigotry of the 1950s. In "My Side of the Story," a little boy struggles to understand why his mother has abandoned him despite her claims that she loves him.

In the aptly titled "Inside Out," a man who has adopted all the trappings of the white world - the hair, the clothes, the speech, the attitudes - finds himself still ostracized in his office and gently mocked at home by a wife who embraces her blackness with pride."--BOOK JACKET.