![]() When Randall Kenan's first collection was published, The New York Times called it "nothing short of a wonder-book." With comparable inventiveness but seasoned by maturity and shot through with humor, his second collection, If I Had Two Wings, riffs on the human relationship with the transcendent. "Ten heavenly stories that chronicle ineffable events in ordinary lives. With deep insight into character, intimate relationships, and the modern search for personal freedom, In the Not Quite Dark is powerful new work that feels both urgent and timeless. is haunted by the specter of both gentrification and a young female tourist, whose body was found in the water tower of a neighboring building. ![]() In "The Liberace Museum," a mixed-race couple leave the South toward the destination of Vegas, crossing miles of road and history to the promised land of consumption in "Rogues," a young man on break from college lands in his brother's Inland Empire neighborhood during a rash of unexplained robberies in "She Deserves Everything She Gets," a woman listens to the strict advice given to her spoiled niece about going away to college, reflecting on her own experience and the night she lost her best friend and in the collection's title story, a man setting down roots in downtown L.A. "Following her prize-winning collection Break Any Woman Down, Dana Johnson returns with a collection of bold stories set mostly in downtown Los Angeles that examine large issues -love, class, race - and how they influence and define our most intimate moments. ![]()
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