![]() ![]() Her conversations are vivid, meandering, sexy and spiritual. I was particularly interested on the experience of the mixed race women and black women that love white men. I will remember many of these stories not just for their content but for their rhythms, emotions and deep knowledge of a particular sub type of black women that we need to understand more. She writes with a sophistication and elegance that kept me breathless. She explores themes of identity, love, family, equality and discrimination both between races and importantly within race. Collins writes about black academic middle class women that are mostly urban in the 1960s. Many of my gal pals will be getting this for their birthday.that's for sure. This is her only collection of prose and was published posthumously in 2016. She died much too young at the age of 46 from breast cancer. Kathleen Collins was a black playwright, film-maker and activist. ![]() This collection of short stories blew my socks off. 4.34 " sophisticated, groovy, urban, remarkable" stars !!!īOOK THAT I WISH MORE OF YOU WOULD READ AWARD FOR 2017 ![]()
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