Slapboxing with Jesus
Stories
New York : Vintage Books, [1999]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 213 pages ; 21 cm
A collection of stories about New York teens by a black writer. The story, Raw Daddy, is on unsafe sex, in Trinidad, a boy is sent to the island to cure him of homosexuality, and in Getting Ugly, a boy falls in love with a hooker.
Contents:
Raw daddy -- Ghost story -- Getting ugly -- Slave -- Ancient history -- Chuckie -- Trinidad -- Who we did worship -- How I lost my inheritance -- Pops -- Kids on Colden Street -- Class trip.
Subjects:
City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Youth -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Queens (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Youth -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Queens (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
ISBN:
0375705902
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F LaValle | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |