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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 02:42 pm: | 
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I am about halfway through it (have read about 8 of the 14 stories) and I definitely recommend it.
Good writing, reminiscent of Faulkner (whom I hate) James Allan McPherson, John Edgar Wideman and Ralph Ellison.
Most of the stories rather downbeat in one three women come together who have lived through the violent deaths of their friends and loved ones but I can't call them The Blues--in The Blues the protagonist knows what is happening to him and Jones' protagonists seem to be bewildered and thunderstruck by the sudden violence that descends on them.
All the stories are set in or involve Black Washington DC--I never had the sense of DC as a Southern city (full of Southern migrants) so much as with this.
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