We Are Taking Only What We Need

Working-class African Americans strive for meaning and search for direction in lives shaped by uncontrollable forces in this prizewinning story collection. “Cheeky, urbane, and playful. Lorrie Moore meets Eudora Welty.” — The New Yorker The ten stories in this resonant collection deal with both the ties that bind and the gulf that separates generations, from children confronting the fallibility of their own parents for the first time to adults finding themselves forced to start over again a