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Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

Kathleen Collins

Start date: February 28, 2017

Finish date: March 3, 2017

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Nov 17, 2017 Jess rated it liked it

Shelves: 2017, books-i-own

Finally picked this book back up after reading snippets and stories here and there. I enjoyed how current and modern-feeling this book was, despite being written decades ago. Not my favorite collection of stories but worth picking up nonetheless.

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Feb 25, 2017 Sarah rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, short-stories

3.5 stars. Each of these stories is so different in its structure, rhythm. I loved the experimentation with how to tell a story -- some read like a film script, some like a play dialogue, some like subconscious automatic writing, some like a traditional short story. Across them all I felt transported to a time and perspective I had never been exposed to before. I'm glad these stories were resurfaced so long after the author's death, and I'm grateful to Book of the Month Club (selected by Guest J ...more

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Feb 09, 2017 Molly rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: short-stories

Thoroughly enjoyed this collection of stories and I wish there were more.

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Jan 10, 2019 Kate rated it really liked it

Finished this collection of short stories that I started in 2018. Still not a huge fan of short story format, but I appreciated the vivid writing and distinct voices of the narrators in each story.

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Jul 20, 2017 Jen rated it it was amazing

These stories work on so many levels you could unpack them for a long time. They are moving, and beautiful, often quiet in their way, but exploring big topics of relationships and the experience of being a black woman in the 1960s. Somehow it is all still so relevant today and I can see so many parallels. I think I will visit some or all of these stories again and again.

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