Striking in their emotional immediacy, the stories in Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self are based in a world where inequality is reality but where the insecurities of adolescence and young adulthood, and the tensions within family and the community, are sometimes the biggest complicating forces in one's sense of identity and the choices one makes. And in 'Snakes,' the mixed-race daughter of intellectuals recounts the disastrous summer she spent with her white grandmother and cousin, a summer that has unforeseen repercussions in the present. In 'Jellyfish,' a father's misguided attempt to rescue a gift for his grown daughter from an apartment collapse magnifies all he doesn't know about her. In 'Harvest,' a college student's unplanned pregnancy forces her to confront her own feelings of inadequacy in comparison to her white classmates. Now this debut short story collection delivers on the promise of that early story. Written when she was only twenty-three, Evans's story of two black, blue-collar fifteen-year-old girls' flirtation with adulthood for one night was startling in its pitch-perfect examination of race, class, and the shifting terrain of adolescence. When Danielle Evans's short story 'Virgins' was published in The Paris Review in late 2007, it announced the arrival of a major new American short story writer. Urn:isbn:1101439475 Republisher_date 20140109123021 Republisher_operator Scandate 20140104051452 Scanner a new star of her generation, an electric debut story collection about mixed-race and African-American teenagers, women, and men struggling to find a place in their families and communities. Urn:lcp:beforeyousuffoca00evan:epub:2b408b3d-262f-42fd-afb5-9ca0fd8dd6f3 Extramarc Duke University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier beforeyousuffoca00evan Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3kw7vk0g Invoice 11 Isbn 9781594487699ġ594487693 Lccn 2010007179 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.6 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Openlibrary OL24110223M Openlibrary_edition In Danielle Evans book, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, three African-american girls find their true identity within their faults and experiences struggling with modern day issues such as sexism, racism, and differences of age amongst the characters. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:44:24 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1111407 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor

Before you suffocate your own fool self