These perspectival, character-driven stories center on the margins and are deeply rooted in New Orleanian culture. GAINES AWARD - LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR- Garden & Gun, Electric Lit - "Every sentence is both something that makes you want to laugh in a gut-wrenching way and threatens to break your heart in a way that you did not anticipate."-Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets, in The Wall Street Journal Maurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to reveal the hidden corners of a place we thought we knew. These stories are intimate invitations to hear, witness, and imagine lives at once regional but largely universal, and undeniably New Orleanian"-īook Synopsis NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A collection of raucous stories that offer a "vibrant and true mosaic" ( The New York Times) of New Orleans, from the critically acclaimed author of We Cast a Shadow SHORTLISTED FOR THE ERNEST J. In "Beg Borrow Steal," a boy relishes time spent helping his father find work after just coming home from prison in "Ghetto University," a couple struggling financially turns to crime after hitting rock bottom in "Before I Let You Go," a woman who's been in NOLA for generations fights to keep her home in "Fast Hands, Fast Feet," an Army vet and a runaway teen find companionship while sleeping under a bridge in "Mercury Forges," a flash fiction piece among several in the collection, a group of men hurriedly make their way to a home where an elderly gentleman lives, trying to reach him before the water from Hurricane Katrina does and in the title story, a young man works the street corners of the French Quarter, trying to achieve a freedom not meant for him. About the Book "Maurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to reveal the hidden corners of a place we thought we knew.
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