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Everything Is Now New and Collected Stories Michelle Cliff Table of Contents		$24.95 cloth/jacket ISBN: 978-0-8166-5593-9
A tour de force of short fiction from an acclaimed author Everything Is Now brings together all the short fiction of Michelle Cliff, featuring fourteen new pieces as well as the stories from her two previous short fiction collections, Bodies of Water and The Store of a Million Items. Cliff, born in Jamaica and raised both there and in New York, skillfully weaves her own experiences into her fiction, exploring race, gender, sexuality, and colonialism. With stunning lyricism, intelligence, and passion, Cliff confronts the dualities of our complex world: black and white, America and the third world, past and present, femininity and masculinity, colonialism and revolution. Touching on such vital themes as memory, the passage of time, familial relationships, the presence of death, and the cross-influence of cultures, Michelle Cliff’s stories are broad in scope, rich in substance, and urgent in their message. “In. . . Everything Is Now, moments are displayed in meticulous cross-section to reveal the depth of meaning in human interaction.” —Curve “These stories resemble Impressionist paintings, full of sensuous imagery and emotion. Their plots are generally nonlinear, and the shorter pieces look like prose poems. There stories have a compelling beauty which almost distracts the reader from their themes of loneliness, regret, and nostalgia for past dreams that have never been fulfilled.” —The Gay & Lesbian Review Michelle Cliff is the author of the novels Abeng, No Telephone to Heaven, and Free Enterprise. Her first collection of nonfiction, If I Could Write This in Fire (2008), was also published by the University of Minnesota Press. 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS My Grandmother’s Eyes Everything Is Now Ashes, Ashes . . . Then As Now Muleskin. Honeyskin. Belling the Lamb Crocodilopolis Lost Nation Road While Underneath Ecce Homo Water Signs It’s All Yours Carnegie’s Bones Dream Street Columba The Ferry A Hanged Man A Woman Who Plays Trumpet Is Deported American Time, American Light Burning Bush Screen Memory Election Day 1984 Bodies of Water Keeper of All Souls Transactions Monster Contagious Melancholia Down the Shore The Store of a Million Items Stan’s Speed Shop Wartime Art History Rubicon Apache Tears A Public Woman

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