Streetlights
Subtitle: illuminating tales of the urban Black experience
By: edited by DorisJean Austin and Martin Simmons.
Contributors: Austin, Doris Jean.; Simmons, Martin, 1947-
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 515
Subjects: City and town life -- Fiction.; African Americans -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Fifty-odd stories on the black urban experience. In Can You Say My Name? teenage girls debate whether to become pregnant, Betrayal is on a teacher who kills a student after she discovers he is a homosexual, and in Room 1023, a recent divorcee contemplates the prospect of joining the ranks of the homeless.