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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Allen, Jeffery Renard, 1962-
Imprint:	St. Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2008.
Description:	227 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	African American families -- Fiction. African Americans -- Fiction African American families. African Americans. Short stories. Fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7299681

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ISBN:	9781555975098 1555975097
Notes:	Short stories.
Summary:	Allen melds gritty urban life and magical realism in his first collection (after the novel Rails Under My Back). At times, the combination works-in the title story, full of contemporary slang, a character grows wings, but instead of ethereal white feathers, they are dried up and brown and crusty, like some fried chicken wings.
Other form:	Online version: Allen, Jeffery Renard, 1962- Holding pattern. St. Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2008

Table of Contents:

Bread and the land
Dog tags
Toilet training
Same
Holding pattern
Shimmy
The near remote
The green apocalypse
Mississippi story
It shall be again.