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A wide-ranging collection, including two novellas and ten stories exploring complex identities, from the acclaimed author of Corregidora, The Healing, and Palmares."Gayl Jones's work represents a watershed in American literature. From a literary standpoint, her form is impeccable . . . and as a Black woman writer, her truth-telling, filled with beauty, tragedy, humor, and incisiveness, is unmatched."-Imani Perry, author of, Looking for Lorraine and BreatheFirst discovered and edited by Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century and was recently a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. This new collection of short fiction from Jones will both reward longtime fans and bring her talent to a new generation of readers. Opening with the novella-length "Butter, " this collection displays Jones's legendary talents in a range of settings and styles, from the hyper-realist to the mystical, in short fragments and multi-part stories.Her narrators are women and men, Black, brown, indigenous, her settings are historical and contemporary, in South America, Mexico and the US, her themes center on complex identities, unorthodox longings and aspirations. She writes about spies, playground designers, cartoonists, and baristas, about workers and revolutionaries, about environmentalism, feminism, poetry, film and love, but above all about our multicultural, multiethnic and multiracial society.