![]() “If they had wanted brown babies who so obviously didn’t belong to them, they would have just adopted.” “Columbia credentials be damned, no one was interested in paying us for our genetic material,” says the narrator in Harvest. ![]() This is a world where young black and Latina Ivy Leaguers see ads in their campus newspaper offering up to $15,000 for human eggs and instinctively understand that only their white, blonde 5’7” roommate is likely to cash in on such a transaction. Many of these stories offer highly contemporary takes on what it’s like in America today, where we can conceive of and aspire to the idea of a “post-race” society, with no real or clear idea of how to get there. There’s a palpable vision at work here, and it makes for a thematically incisive and cohesive, if occasionally redundant, collection that examines the lives of intelligent, highly sensitive young black and biracial women (and, occasionally, men) struggling to progress beyond transient, indeterminate states of youth. ![]() ![]() The eight stories in Danielle Evans’s debut short story collection, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, engage confidently with themes of disconnection, alienation, and the costs of straddling racial, sexual, and emotional divides. ![]()
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