Description
Z.Z. Packer shares her debut, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. Her impressive range and talent are abundantly evident: Packer dazzles with her command of language, surprising and delighting us with unexpected turns and indelible images, as she takes us into the lives of characters on the periphery, unsure of where they belong. We meet a Brownie troop of black girls who are confronted with a troop of white girls; a young man who goes with his father to the Million Man March and must decide where his allegiance lies; an international group of drifters in Japan who are starving and unable to find work; a girl in a Baltimore ghetto who has dreams of the larger world she has seen only on the screens in the television store nearby, where the Lithuanian shopkeeper holds out hope for attaining his own American Dream.
Brownies
Every tongue shall confess
Our Lady of Peace
The ant of the self
Drinking coffee elsewhere
Speaking in tongues
Geese
Doris is coming
Endorsements
Chosen by John Updike as a Today Show Book Club Pick.