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Asali Solomon's characters are vivid misfits―a heathen at Jesus camp, a scheming prep-school student, a middle-aged mom pining for her salsa-dancing salad days, a scheming twentysomething virgin, a college stud in love with his weight-lifting partner, a lonely girl in love with a yellow dress. The kids in Get Down are trapped between their own good breeding and their burning desire to join the house party of sex, romance, and bad behavior that seems to be happening on some other block, down some other, more dangerous street. Get Down is, in the words of Edward P. Jones, "touching and sensitively observed . . . from the first word to the last."
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"Asali Solomon's stories are luminous and touching and are an important contribution to the serious literature about the urban lives of black Americans. Solomon's work--much of it about the world of private school teens in 1980s Philadelphia--is touching and sensitively observed and should be applauded from the first words to the last."
--Edward P. Jones, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
About the Author
Asali Solomon was born and raised in Philadelphia. Get Down, her first book, earned her a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, was chosen as one of the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" for 2007, and was a finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award.
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- PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0374531463
- ISBN 13 9780374531461
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages208
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