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DRINKING COFFEE ELSEWHERE Storiesby Packer, Z. Z. , Signed
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Book DescriptionRiverhead Books. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1573222348 . ; First edition, first printing (complete number line). SIGNED by Packer on the title page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 238 pages; Signed by Author . Book summaryStories by an award-winning young American writer, many of them about young black women struggling to survive. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.Media Reviews"Highly personal yet socio-politically acute: a debut collection that cuts to the bone of human experience and packs a lasting wallop." -- Kirkus "Young writers, naturally enough, write about young characters. DRINKING COFFEE ELSEWHERE is not really limited by this. Instead, there is a sense of a talented writer testing and pushing at those limits, ringing as many changes as possible within her fictional world. It is a world already populated by clamoring, sorrowing, eminently knowable people, and with the promise of more to come." -- Jean Thompson, New York Times Book Review "...DRINKING COFFEE ELSEWHERE is an intelligent and memorable meditation on what it means to be a victim. Although each of the stories shows the importance of race, they all challenge the assumptions that to be black must mean feeling like a loser, and that feeling like a loser is always caused by being black....The central characters themselves are fully alive, and each story shows that race is only one element in their sense of themselves as people apart. Packer can be very funny...[A]t her best, Packer combines her political vision with an impressive lightness of touch." -- Emily Wilson, London Review of Books Publisher NotesIn a debut collection by an award-winning short story writer, a scout troupe of African-American girls is confronted by a group of disabled white girls, a young man considers his allegiance to his father during the Million Man March in Washington, and an international group of work-seeking drifters find themselves starving in Japan. Other Recommended Books
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