Seaside Stories - Softcover
Seaside Stories is a collection of short stories based in Seaside, California's small Black population during the 1950's. It is centered around the family of a strong and enterprising Black minister, and particularly, the close but tumultuous relationship with his older son.
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About the Author:
S. R. Martin, Jr. was a founding faculty member of the Evergreen State College of Olympia, Washington. He taught American/African American Studies there, and served as Dean. His previous major publications are the family memoir, "On the Move: A Black Family's Western Saga," 2009, Texas A & M University Press; and the novel, "Natural Born Proud, A Revery," Utah State University Press, 2010.
Review:
Now this is cause for celebration: reading S.R. Martin, Jr.'s new collection of linked stories makes you want to jump up and shout "Amen!" Full of the juice and grit of live in all its glories and tragic breakdowns, this book never shies from telling the hard truths about loss, pain, and heartache. But the stories, like the people they reveal, continue to reach for purpose and connection in a changing world that makes it hard for anyone to believe in redemption. And this is Martin's greatest gift: to find a way through the pain, through our worst tendencies toward selfishness and greed, to our best selves. This book is a joy to read, and a defining work in the celebration of the human spirit in twenty-first century America. I really did love the book, and I'll never look at a damp choir robe in the same way again. --Dennis Held, author of 2 books of poety, "Betting on the Night," Lost Horse Press, 2001; and "Ourself," Gribble Press, 2011
These are truly stories from the heart about "the human heart in conflict with itself." Creating a set of vivid characters, centered around Carter Hankerson and the Hankerson family in northern California, S.R. Martin, Jr. presents a compact cycle of indelible vignettes about growing up black in middle-class America in the mid-twentieth century. These stories explore themes of love, loyalty, friendship, compassion, ambition, pride, self-doubt, rebellion, race, responsibility, and forgiveness. Narrated in unique and distinctive voices, masculine, feminine, and graphic, they maintain an easy harmony between narration and dialogue. Race, music, and religion loom large in all these stories. "Sunday Songs," "Glorious," and "Anything for Me?" guide us down a path the author knows well and has illumined with skill and compassion. There is much to be learned by spending a while in Seaside through these stories. --Thomas Grissom, author of "The Physicist's World," and "Parodies of the Fall."
These are truly stories from the heart about "the human heart in conflict with itself." Creating a set of vivid characters, centered around Carter Hankerson and the Hankerson family in northern California, S.R. Martin, Jr. presents a compact cycle of indelible vignettes about growing up black in middle-class America in the mid-twentieth century. These stories explore themes of love, loyalty, friendship, compassion, ambition, pride, self-doubt, rebellion, race, responsibility, and forgiveness. Narrated in unique and distinctive voices, masculine, feminine, and graphic, they maintain an easy harmony between narration and dialogue. Race, music, and religion loom large in all these stories. "Sunday Songs," "Glorious," and "Anything for Me?" guide us down a path the author knows well and has illumined with skill and compassion. There is much to be learned by spending a while in Seaside through these stories. --Thomas Grissom, author of "The Physicist's World," and "Parodies of the Fall."
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- PublisherBlue Nile Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0984435026
- ISBN 13 9780984435029
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages129
- EditorDavid Covin
- IllustratorJohn F. King
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