At-Risk - Hardcover

Gautier, Amina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820338885 ISBN 13: 9780820338880

Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr, 2011

Synopsis

In Amina Gautier’s Brooklyn, some kids make it and some kids don’t, but not in simple ways or for stereotypical reasons. Gautier’s stories explore the lives of young African Americans who might all be classified as ";at-risk,"; yet who encounter different opportunities and dangers in their particular neighborhoods and schools and who see life through the lens of different family experiences.Gautier’s focus is on quiet daily moments, even in extraordinary lives; her characters do not stand as emblems of a subculture but live and breathe as people. In ";The Ease of Living,"; the young teen Jason is sent down south to spend the summer with his grandfather after witnessing the double murder of his two best friends, and he is not happy about it. A season of sneaking into as many movies as possible on one ticket or dunking girls at the pool promises to turn into a summer of shower chairs and the smell of Ben-Gay in the unimaginably b

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About the Author

Amina Gautier, PhD., is the author of three award-winning short story collections: At-Risk, Now We Will Be Happy and the The Loss of All Lost Things. At-Risk was awarded the Flannery O'Connor Award, The First Horizon Award, and the Eric Hoffer Legacy Fiction Award. Now We Will Be Happy was awarded the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, the Florida Authors and Publishers Association President's Book Award, a USA Best Book Award, and a National Silver Medal IPPY Award. The Loss of All Lost Things was awarded the Elixir Press Award in Fiction and the Chicago Public Library's 21stCentury Award. Gautier has published 113 short stories. Her stories have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Agni, Callaloo, GlimmerTrain, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, and StoryQuarterly. For her individual short stories, Gautier has been the recipient of the Crazyhorse Prize, the Danahy Fiction Prize, the Jack Dyer Prize, the William Richey Prize, the Schlafly Microfiction Award, and the Lamar York Prize in Fiction. She has also received grants from the Illinois Arts Council and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Her fiction has been supported with fellowships and scholarships from American Antiquarian Society, The Betsy Hotel, Breadloaf Writer's Conference, Callaloo Writer's Workshop, Dora Maar, Disquiet International, Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers; Hurston/Wright Foundation Writer's Workshop, Kimbilio, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Key West Literary Seminars, MacDowell Colony, Prairie Center of the Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, Sewanee Writer's Conference, Ucross Foundation, University of Miami Center for the Humanities, Vermont Studio Center and Writers in the Heartland. Gautier is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania. Gautier is the 2018 winner of the PEN/MALAMUD Award.

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820338885
• ISBN 13: 9780820338880
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 154