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092    |fF|aOLIVER 
100 1  Oliver, Diane,|d1943-1966,|eauthor. 
245 10 Neighbors and other stories /|cDiane Oliver. 
250    First edition ; First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York :|bGrove Press,|c2024. 
300    297 pages;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 0  Neighbors -- The closet on the top floor -- Before 
       twilight -- Health service -- Mint juleps not served here 
       -- Key to the city -- The visitor -- Banago kalt -- When 
       the apples are ripe -- Traffic jam -- "No brown sugar in 
       anybody's milk" -- Frozen voices -- Our trip to the nature
       museum -- Spiders cry without tears. 
520    "A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows 
       various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils 
       of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in 
       the canon of twentieth-century African American 
       literature. A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, 
       Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of twenty-two, 
       leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales
       that explore race and racism in 1950s and '60s America. In
       this first and only collection by a masterful storyteller 
       finally taking her rightful place in the canon, Oliver's 
       insightful stories reverberate into the present day. 
       There's the nightmarish "The Closet on the Top Floor" in 
       which Winifred, the first Black student at her newly 
       integrated college, starts to physically disappear; "Mint 
       Juleps Not Served Here" where a couple living deep in a 
       forest with their son go to bloody lengths to protect him;
       "Spiders Cry Without Tears," in which a couple, Meg and 
       Walt, are confronted by prejudices of interracial and 
       extramarital love; and the titular story that follows a 
       nervous older sister the night before her brother is set 
       to desegregate his school. These are incisive and intimate
       portraits of African American families in everyday moments
       of anxiety and crisis that look at how they use agency to 
       navigate their predicaments. As much a social and 
       historical document as it is a taut, engrossing collection,
       Neighbors is an exceptional literary feat from a crucial 
       once-lost figure of letters"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Short stories, American|vFiction. 
650  0 Racism|vFiction. 
650  0 Prejudices|vFiction. 
650  0 African American families|vFiction. 
655  7 Short stories.|2lcgft