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'Full of subtle poignancy ... each story is a trenchant exploration of race and class, vividly conveying the tension between social codes of masculinity and the vulnerable, volatile self' New Yorker
A National Book Award Finalist
'Comfort' has been longlisted for the 2021 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award
In the nine unforgettable stories of A Lucky Man, Jamel Brinkley explores the unseen tenderness of black men and boys: the struggle to love and be loved, the invisible ties of family and friendship, and the inescapable forces of race, class and masculinity.
A teen intent on proving himself a man at an all-night rave is preoccupied by watching out for his impressionable younger brother. A pair of young men who follow two girls home from a party face the uncomfortable truth of their desires. An imaginative boy from the inner city goes swimming in the suburbs, and faces the effects of privilege in ways he can barely grasp. And at a capoeira conference, two brothers grapple with their painful family history.
Moving, lyrical and keen-eyed, A Lucky Man captures the inner lives of men and boys caught between hope and expectation, duty and desire.
A National Book Award Finalist
'Comfort' has been longlisted for the 2021 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award
In the nine unforgettable stories of A Lucky Man, Jamel Brinkley explores the unseen tenderness of black men and boys: the struggle to love and be loved, the invisible ties of family and friendship, and the inescapable forces of race, class and masculinity.
A teen intent on proving himself a man at an all-night rave is preoccupied by watching out for his impressionable younger brother. A pair of young men who follow two girls home from a party face the uncomfortable truth of their desires. An imaginative boy from the inner city goes swimming in the suburbs, and faces the effects of privilege in ways he can barely grasp. And at a capoeira conference, two brothers grapple with their painful family history.
Moving, lyrical and keen-eyed, A Lucky Man captures the inner lives of men and boys caught between hope and expectation, duty and desire.
'Full of subtle poignancy ... each story is a trenchant exploration of race and class, vividly conveying the tension between social codes of masculinity and the vulnerable, volatile self' New Yorker
A National Book Award Finalist
'Comfort' has been longlisted for the 2021 Sunday Times Audible Sh...
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Jamel Brinkley's writing has appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2018, A Public Space, Tin House and elsewhere. He was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University and lives in California. A Lucky Man is his first book.
Jamel Brinkley's writing has appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2018, A Public Space, Tin House and elsewhere. He was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fict...
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