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Staten Island Stories Spiral-Bound | 2019-12-03

Claire Jimenez

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A fresh, compelling collection of stories by a serious new voice on the literary scene.

Winner of the Hornblower Award by the New York Society Library, Honorable Mention for the International Latino Book Awards: Best Collection of Short Stories by Empowering Latino Futures

New York City's Staten Island is often described as the forgotten borough. But with Staten Island Stories, Claire Jimenez shines a spotlight on the imagined lives of the islanders. Inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, this collection of loosely linked tragicomic short stories travels across time to explore defining moments in the island's history, from the 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash and the New York City blackout to the growing opioid and heroin crisis, Eric Garner's murder, and the 2016 presidential election.

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 192 pages
ISBN-10: 1421434156
Item Weight: 0.5 lbs
Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
These stories are deeply grounded in a particular place and community but will resonate with readers everywhere . . . Her prose, especially the dialogue, snaps with authentic immediacy . . . Staten Island Stories concerns ugly times and circumstances, but the people and the stories are beautiful.
--Ellen Prentiss Campbell, New York Journal of Books
A longtime Staten Islander, Claire Jimenez is a PhD student in English with a concentration in ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She received her BA in English from Colby College and her MFA in creative writing from Vanderbilt University. Her fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in BOAAT, New Madrid, Afro-Hispanic Review, Pank, el roommate, The Toast, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications.