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“Lorrie Moore meets Eudora Welty.” —The New Yorker
“Watts shows us people, real souls like the people we sit next to on the bus, people who live down the hall, people who could be relatives.” —Edward P. Jones, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
In these powerfully rendered, prizewinning stories, workingclass African Americans across the South strive for meaning and search for direction in lives shaped by forces beyond their control—now available as a Harper Perennial Olive Edition.
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