![]() ![]() The stories are set in invented locations in both Africa and America and play out over a continuum of time. Encompassing twelve short stories, the collection is loosely linked around African notions of time and place, along with African views of space, cosmology, and metaphysics. ![]() This is a powerful collection.”įAT TIME AND OTHER STORIES is the powerful new collection from PEN/Faulkner Award finalist Jeffery Renard Allen. His themes of destruction and renewal, love and desire, despair and hardship, estrangement and war, and the weight of time itself, are always universal. Allen has never forgotten the importance of ‘the human heart in conflict with itself’ (Faulkner). ![]() Although his characters face defeat and folly, they not only endure, they often prevail. “Jeffery Renard Allen’s writing in Fat Time and Other Stories is intense, subtle, and astute, rendered with folk wisdom and magical realism. ![]()
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