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Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

by Danielle Evans

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

Hardcover, 232 pages, Penguin Group USA, List Price: $25.95 | purchase

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Fearless, funny, and ultimately tender, Evans's stories offer a bold new perspective on the experience of being young and African-American or mixed-race in modern-day America.

This book is about:

  • Self-realization in women,
  • African American women,
  • Fiction

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Watch: Danielle Evans' Short Story Reading At NPR

Danielle Evans' short story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self was published by Riverhead in September. She is currently working on a novel.

March 4, 2011 Danielle Evans, a young writer whose recent short story collection, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, made several "Best of 2010" lists, stopped by NPR for a reading in honor of Black History Month. In this video, she reads from her story, "Wherever You Go, There You Are."

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Best Books Of 2010

Best Books Of Winter: Alan Cheuse Makes His List

Illustration: Alan Cheuse as Santa

December 15, 2010 Literary Santa delivers his list of favorite fiction, nonfiction and poetry — a box of the best books from 2010 that he'd like to bring to your house on a snowy morning.

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