Summary
"New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow mines the compelling poetry of the out-of-time African-American Louisiana town where he grew up--a place where slavery's legacy felt astonishingly close, reverberating in the elders' stories and in the near-constant wash of violence"--Amazon.com. Full description
- The house with no steps
- Thanksgiving
- Chester
- The punk next door
- Look-away Jesus
- Change
- Another boy's baby
- The brothers
- Hell week
- The champagne-colored girl
- Lie detector
- The just-in-case-gun.