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A collection of stories from his home town
Amistad
September 2006
On Sale: August 29, 2006
416 pages
ISBN: 0060557567
EAN: 9780060557560
Hardcover
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Fiction
In fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, five of which have
been published in The New Yorker, the bestselling and
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World shows that
his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever Returning to the city that inspired his first prizewinning
book, Lost in the City, Jones has filled this new collection
with people who call Washington, D.C., home. Yet it is not
the city's power brokers that most concern him but rather
its ordinary citizens. All Aunt Hagar's Children turns an
unflinching eye to the men, women, and children caught
between the old ways of the South and the temptations that
await them further north, people who in Jones's masterful
hands, emerge as fully human and morally complex, whether
they are country folk used to getting up with the chickens
or people with centuries of education behind them. In the title story, in which Jones employs the first-person
rhythms of a classic detective story, a Korean War veteran
investigates the death of a family friend whose sorry
destiny seems inextricable from his mother's own violent
Southern childhood. In "In the Blink of God's Eye" and
"Tapestry" newly married couples leave behind the
familiarity of rural life to pursue lives of urban promise
only to be challenged and disappointed. With the legacy of slavery just a stone's throw away and the
future uncertain, Jones's cornucopia of characters will
haunt readers for years to come.
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