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White Rat: Stories (Harlem Moon Classics)

Originally published in 1977, White Rat contains twelve provocative tales that explore the emotional and mental terrain of a diverse cast of characters, from the innocent to the insane.

In each, Jones displays her unflinching ability to dive into the most treacherous of psyches and circumstances: the title story examines the identity and relationship conundrums of a black man who can pass for white, earning him the name �White Rat� as an infant; �The Women� follows a girl whose mother brings a line of female lovers to live in their home; �Jevata� details eighteen-year-old Freddy�s relationship with the fifty-year-old title character; �The Coke Factory� tracks the thoughts of a mentally handicapped adolescent abandoned by his mother; and �Asylum� focuses on a woman having a nervous breakdown, trying to protect her dignity and her private parts as she enters an institution.

In uncompromising prose, and dialect that veers from northern, educated tongues to down-home southern colloquialisms, Jones illuminates lives that society ignores, moving them to center stage.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 176
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780767922135
  • Genres
  • queer, fiction
  • Release date
  • 2005