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A War of Eyes and Other Stories - Wanda Coleman
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"A "struggling welfare mother," Wanda Coleman says she was "a brash, abrasively frank young woman, her few sponsorships were frequently aborted by her naivete, her stubbornness or socio-economic contingencies." Here are twenty-five Watts, Los Angeles, stories that whisper, scream, moan, and sing about people who "smile and act nice to you but they ain't your friends," pretty newborn babies, dressed-up pimps, women who sell their bodies—but not their anger—to feed their kids, and sweet, loving friends..."
(J.L., p. 304)