This American Book Award winning collection of stories by the iconic writer J. California Cooper is now available in a new edition.
In her widely acclaimed short story collection, award-winning author J. California Cooper brings tales full of wonder at the mystery of life and the hardness of fate. Follow characters as they find love in the most unlikely of places and share their joy, sadness and wisdom with the warmth and humor of the folk tale tradition. Awed, bedeviled, bemused, all of Cooper's characters are borne up by the sheer power of life itself.
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J. CALIFORNIA COOPER is the author of two novels, four collections of stories, and seventeen plays. Homemade Love was the winner of the American Book Award in 1989. She has been honored as the Black Playwright of the Year, and has also received the James Baldwin Writing Award and the Literary Lion Award from the American Library Association. Ms. Cooper lived in California. |