Rattlebone | 
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I really liked getting to know the characters in this book. A few stories, though, seemed to end way too quickly without giving the characters enough time to be fleshed out properly.
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pick#2023Book58
I really liked getting to know the characters in this book. A few stories, though, seemed to end way too quickly without giving the characters enough time to be fleshed out properly.
I'm looking through the catolog of McNally Editions when I read the description of the tagged:
“Irene Wilson knows that a “no-name invisible something” has settled over her parents‘ marriage and suspects her glamorous new teacher is to blame. Irene is not alone in her suspicions. In the town of Rattlebone, a small Black neighborhood of Kansas City, secrets are hard to keep and growing up is a community affair.“
I googled to see if Clair was a KC
pickPublished in 1994, excellent interrelated short story collection revolving around a young African-American girl coming of age in 1950s in a small African-American neighborhood.
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