false 6344942 1 <DIV><i>Everything Is Now</i> brings together all the short fiction of Michelle Cliff, featuring fourteen new pieces as well as the stories from her two previous short fiction collections (<i>Bodies of Water</i> and <i>The Store of a Million Items</i>). <br> <br> Cliff, born in Jamaica and raised both there and in New York, skillfully weaves her own experiences into her fiction, exploring race, gender, sexuality, and colonialism. <br> <br> With stunning lyricism, intelligence, and passion, Cliff confronts the dualities of our complex world: black and white, America and the third world, past and present, femininity and masculinity, colonialism and revolution. <br> <br> Touching on such vital themes as memory, the passage of time, familial relationships, the presence of death, and the cross-influence of cultures, Michelle Cliff’s stories are broad in scope, rich in substance, and urgent in their message.</DIV> 6531204 5 5 2009 Everything Is Now: New and Collected Stories total:1|3:1| 1 3 5 0 0 0 false false Thu Oct 29 10:14:20 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 10:14:27 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 22 10:37:10 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 12:36:23 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jun 22 19:33:04 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 19:33:20 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Apr 04 01:03:50 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 01:03:50 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Sep 25 08:45:03 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 21:59:57 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 08:45:03 -0700 2009