Title: Holding pattern
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.
Subjects: African American families, African Americans, Fiction, Short stories, Fiction, short stories (single author)