Best African American Fiction: 2010 - ed. Gerald Early, ed. Nikki Giovanni Audiobook

Written by ed. Gerald Early, ed. Nikki Giovanni
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Best African American Fiction: 2010
Edited by Gerald Early & Nikki Giovanni
Read by Mark Delgado
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Total # of Tracks: 29
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Bursting with energy and innovation, the second volume in the annual anthology collects the year’s best short stories by African American authors.
Dealing with all aspects of life, from the pain of war to the warmth of family, the superb tales in Best African American Fiction 2010 are a tribute to the stunning imaginations thriving in today’s African American literary community. Chosen by this year’s guest editor, the legendary Nikki Giovanni, these works delve into international politics and personal histories, the clash of armies and of generations—and come from such publications as The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Kenyon Review, and Callaloo.
In “Ghosts,” Edwidge Danticat portrays an aspiring radio talk show host in Bel Air—which some call the Baghdad of Haiti—who is brutally scapegoated, and in “Three Letters, One Song & a Refrain,” Chris Abani gives a searing account of the violent life of a thirteen-year-old member of a Burmese hill tribe. Jeffery Renard Allen dramatizes the mysterious arrival in Harlem of a child’s hated grandmother, and Wesley Brown fictionalizes the life of the great saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, with cameo appearances by Louis Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson, and other immortals. John Edgar Wideman contributes dense and textured “Microstories” that interweave everything from taboo sex acts to Richard Wright’s last works to murder in a modern family. Desiree Cooper depicts a debutante from Atlanta moving to Detroit, “a city where there’s no place to hide,” while in “Been Meaning to Say,” by Amina Gautier, a widower gets an unforgettable holiday visit from his resentful daughter.
From Africa to Philadelphia, from the era of segregation to the age of Obama, the times and places, people and events in Best African American Fiction 2010 reveal inconvenient truths through incomparable fiction.

Stories in this collection:

01) Preface by Gerald Early
02) Introduction: On the Edge of Comfort by Nikki Giovanni
—Stories—
03) The Ariran’s Last Life by Maria Eliza Hamilton Abegunde
04) Three Letters, One Song & A Refrain by Chris Abani
05) The Headstrong Historian by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
06) Bread and the Land by Jeffery Renard Allen
07) Body and Soul by Wesley Brown
08) Night Coming by Desiree Cooper
09) Ghosts by Edwidge Danticat
10) Been Meaning to Say by Amina Gautier
11) The Torturer’s Wife by Thomas Glave
12) Prince Valiant Works the Black Seam by W. David Hall
13) Out of Body by Glenville Lovell
14) A Few Good Men by David Nicholson
15) From “Yellow Moon” by Jewell Parker Rhodes
16) Microstories by John Edgar Wideman
17) The Gangsters by Colson Whitehead
18) From “Where the Line Bleeds” by Jesmyn Ward
19) Arrivederci, Aldo by Kim Sykes
—Young Adult Literature—
20) From “Chains” by Laurie Halse Anderson
21) From “Up for It: A Tale of the Underground” by L. F. Haines
22) From “Mary Jane” by Dorothy Sterling
23) Acknowledgments
24) Permissions and Credits
25) About the Editors