Research Catalog

Title

Water Street / Crystal Wilkinson ; foreword by Jacinda Townsend ; afterword by Marianne Worthington.

Author

Wilkinson, Crystal

Publication

Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2017.

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Details

Description

xii, 185 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"The residents of Water Street are hardworking, God-fearing people who live in a seemingly safe and insulated neighborhood within a small Kentucky town: "Water Street is a place where mothers can turn their backs to flip a pancake or cornmeal hoecake on the stove and know our children are safe." But all is not as it seems as the secret lives of neighbors and friends are revealed in interconnected tales of love, loss, truth, and tragedy. In this critically acclaimed short story collection, Crystal Wilkinson peels back the intricate layers that form the fabric of this community and its inhabitants--revealing emotionally raw, multifaceted tales of race, class, gender, mental illness, and interpersonal relationships. The thirteen succinct stories offer fragmented glimpses of an overarching narrative that emerges, lyrical and fierce. Featuring a new foreword and a new afterword which illuminate Wilkinson's artistic achievement, this captivating work is poised to delight a new generation of readers." --pg 4 of cover.

Series Statement

Kentucky voices

Uniform Title

Kentucky voices

Subject

• African Americans > Fiction
• Kentucky > Fiction
• Stanford (Ky.) > Social life and customs > Fiction

Genre/Form

Fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Welcome to Water Street -- My girl Mona: Yolanda -- Water Street, 1979: Junior -- In plain site: Jeanette -- An ordinary man: Reverend Townsend -- Between men: Mouse -- The evolution of Sandy Crawford: Sandy -- The girl of my dreams: Kiki -- Spoiled: Maxine -- The fight: Toni and Candy -- Sixteen confessions of Lois Carter: Lois -- Respite: Pearline -- Man crazy: Mona -- Before I met my father: Angie.

ISBN

• 0813169100
• 9780813169101

OCLC

• 959035668
• SCSB-11260831

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library