The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You: Stories
Maurice Carlos Ruffin
(Author)
Description
A collection of raucous stories that offer a panoramic view of New Orleans from the author of the stunning and audacious (NPR) debut novel We Cast a Shadow. Maurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to reveal the hidden corners of a place we thought we knew. These perspectival, character-driven stories center on the margins and are deeply rooted in New Orleanian culture. In Beg Borrow Steal, a boy relishes time spent helping his father find work after just coming home from prison; in Ghetto University, a couple struggling financially turns to crime after hitting rock bottom; in Before I Let You Go, a woman who's been in NOLA for generations fights to keep her home; in Fast Hands, Fast Feet, an Army vet and a runaway teen find companionship while sleeping under a bridge; in Mercury Forges, a flash fiction piece among several in the collection, a group of men hurriedly make their way to a home where an elderly gentleman lives, trying to reach him before the water from Hurricane Katrina does; and in the title story, a young man works the street corners of the French Quarter, trying to achieve a freedom not meant for him. These stories are intimate invitations to hear, witness, and imagine lives at once regional but largely universal, and undeniably New Orleanian.Product Details
Price
$26.00
$23.92
Publisher
One World
Publish Date
August 17, 2021
Pages
192
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780593133408
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About the Author
Maurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of We Cast a Shadow, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the PEN/Open Book Award and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. A recipient of an Iowa Review Award in fiction, he has been published in Virginia Quarterly Review, AGNI, Kenyon Review, Massachusetts Review, and Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas. A native of New Orleans, he is a graduate of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop and a member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance.