Idi, a Senegalese English translator, relates a group of stories that capture the black experience in a range of African and Afro-American voices, telling of adolescence, racism, and beliefs lost and found...
Stories of the African-American middle class range in form from a satiric folktale to a speculative glimpse at the future and feature authentic voices using humor to blanket the tragedies of the commonplace....
The winner of numerous literary awards including the Pushcart Prize explores the meaning--and meaninglessness--of race through a range of black and white characters who cross the color line, often paying the price of ostracism by their peers....
Evan Norris, a disaffected, young, Black American, travels to Senegal, contracts malarial fever, and is taken in by a Senegalese family, a contact leading to brushes with the occult, a romantic liaison, and self-discovery...