Staten Island stories / Claire Jimenez.

"This collection of tragicomic short stories, whose form is inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, feature various inhabitants of Staten Island, New York City's so-called forgotten borough. The collection travels across time through the voices of working-class folks to e...

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Main Author: Jimenez, Claire (Author)
Other title:Short stories. Selections
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
Series:Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction.
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Table of Contents:
  • Tale of the angry adjunct
  • What it is
  • Great kills
  • Eddie and the dying fish
  • The knight's tale
  • Do now
  • Underneath the water you could actually hear bells
  • This one kid Douglass got jumped
  • You are a strange imitation of a woman
  • The grant writer's tale
  • Who would break the dark first
  • As luck would have it.