Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

Name: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Author: ZZ Packer
ISBN: 9781573223782

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#2684 of 8,085 books · #1194 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2004).

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, 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. With penetrating insight, ZZ Packer helps us see the world with a clearer vision.

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