The Ones Who Don'T Say They Love You: Stories - 9780593133415

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS? CHOICE ? A collection of raucous stories that offer a ?vibrant and true mosaic? (The New York Times) of New Orleans, from the critically acclaimed author of We Cast a Shadow SHORTLISTED FOR THE ERNEST J. GAINES AWARD ? LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE ? ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR?Garden & Gun, Electric Lit ? ?Every sentence is both something that makes you want to laugh in a gut-wrenching way and threatens to break your heart in a way that you did not anticipate.??Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets, in The Wall Street Journal Maurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to reveal the hidden corners of a place we thought we knew. These perspectival, character-driven stories center on the margins and are deeply rooted in New Orleanian culture. In ?Beg Borrow Steal,? a boy relishes time spent helping his father find work after coming home from prison; in ?Ghetto University,? a couple struggling financially turns to crime after hitting rock bottom; in ?Before I Let Go,? a woman who?s been in NOLA for generations fights to keep her home; in ?Fast Hands, Fast Feet,? an army vet and a runaway teen find companionship while sleeping under a bridge; in ?Mercury Forges,? a flash fiction piece among several in the collection, a group of men hurriedly make their way to an elderly gentleman?s home, trying to reach him before the water from Hurricane Katrina does; and in the title story, a young man works the street corners of the French Quarter, trying to achieve a freedom not meant for him. These stories are intimate invitations to hear, witness, and imagine lives at once regional but largely universal, and undeniably New Orleanian, written by a lifelong resident of New Orleans and one of our finest new writers.

Author: Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Publisher: One World

Publication Date: Jun 21, 2022

Number of Pages: 192 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback/Fiction

ISBN-10: 0593133412

ISBN-13: 9780593133415