Stop Dat Moda/Eight Mile House/The German Girls and Other Stories

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STOP DAT MODA uses every technique from African American oral tradition--

storytelling, slave narratives, folklore, legend, tall tales, jokes, riddles,

songs, etc.--to create a richly textured novel set in Kentucky in the 1920's

and 1930's.  A multi-racial canvas of characters, men, women, and children--

Kate, Olga, Ijacks, Mag, Max and Maxine, Big Mike, Mr. Gonzales, Santuwa,

Inez, Hi Tyson, The Jensens, Dang Ober, Nat Perrison, and many others--also

create a vivid and richly textured world.  Excerpts from STOP DAT MODA have

been published in Obsidian, Callaloo ("Minnie B. and Duney") and BOP.

EIGHT MILE HOUSE is an African American/multi-cultural science fiction

romance/satire. Written in a popular and colloquial style, it blends the

techniques of science fiction, romance, oral narration, and popular fiction.  

Santuwa, part-Spanish part-Ethiopian, arrives at the Fairfield Airport with

(African American) Onistine's friend Nantlie, who's just come back from

vacationing in Paris.  Santuwa is a handsome, strange, elusive figure who

leads Onistine to question whether the subsequent events at Eight Mile House

are reality or a product of her overactive imagination.  Is even Santuwa real?

THE GERMAN GIRLS AND OTHER STORIES, a collection of twelve imaginative stories, offers a rich assortment of characters, textures, and settings: regional, national, international, cosmic.  "My Eyes Delight" was first published in The Literary Magazine (Italy).

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