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Stories
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
October 2006
On Sale: October 16, 2006
208 pages
ISBN: 0374299420
EAN: 9780374299422
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Asali Solomon’s characters are vivid misfits—a heathen at
Jesus camp, a scheming prep-school student, a middle-aged
mom pining for her salsa-dancing salad days, a scheming
twentysomething virgin, a college stud in love with his
weight-lifting partner, a lonely girl in love with a yellow
dress. The kids in Get Down are trapped between their
own good breeding and their burning desire to join the house
party of sex, romance, and bad behavior that seems to be
happening on some other block, down some other more
dangerous street. The adults in Get Down are just
trying to hold it
together.
Here is a debut
that will make you laugh and cringe in equal measure. Set
mostly in middle-class black Philadelphia during the crack
and Reagan years, the stories in Get Down are antic,
poignant, and utterly universal—they’ll bring back memories
for anyone who has ever stood in the corner of a darkened
school gym wondering whether to dance . . . or duck for
cover. They announce a sparkling new talent, a recent
graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop whose work has been
featured in Vibe, Essence, and the anthology
Naked: Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips,
Lips, and Other Parts.
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