title: Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?: Stories (Art of the Story)
author:  Kathleen Collins 
description: From the first page you know youre in the hands of an exceptional writer... Collins stories are passionate and light-footed, angry but also delicate - they move like quicksilver... Shes deliciously funny. She speaks of the many-sided lives of black women with care and intelligence. I adored this book. (Zadie Smith, author of Swing Time)<br /><br />Sexy and radical and intimate. (Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man)<br /><br />Sharp, tender, and precise--full of wit and pleasure. Reading [Collins] feels likes eavesdropping on an electric historical moment from a secret perch just above the kitchen table. I lost myself in these stories with a sense of wrestling and delight, grateful for the crackles and surprises they continually delivered. (Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams)<br /><br />These stories offer a sharp, clear, unsentimental vision of race in the sixties, the mingling of politics and desire, the search for place that will be both exotic and familiar to modern readers, richly historical and utterly recognizable. (Katie Roiphe)<br /><br />[A] lost treasure... this jewel of a book illuminates big timeless themes of familial ties and self-determination, group affinity and individualism, lovers and the power plays between them in a way that feels completely new.. (Bliss Broyard)<br /><br />In this slim, devastating collection, Kathleen Collins writes of interracial America like no one before or since. This is a daringly complex vision of both blackness and whiteness by a writer who was utterly ahead of her time. (Danzy Senna, author of <em>Caucasia</em>)<br /><br />Kathleen Collins writes with an immediacy and vividness that is exhilarating to read. She inhabits a landscape that sidesteps political or sexual correctness in favor of emotional truth-telling...Throughout it all there is a brio that is contagious. (Daphne Merkin)<br /><br />Kathleen Collins has the dramatists gift for multiple voices and viewpoints...How well she understands mixed motives, emotions and bloodlines. Histories and legacies at cross-purposes. Elective and compulsive affinities, both intellectual and erotic. How unlucky we were to lose her. And how lucky we are to have these stories. (Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland)<br /><br />This book is one of the most eloquent statements I have read of what it was like to be black and young and alive in the 1960s. I applaud its publication. (Vivian Gornick, author of <em>The Odd Woman and the City</em>)<br /><br />It is a delightful literary discovery that the creator of the landmark film, Losing Ground, also turned her hand to fiction. The stories collected here are witty and revealing, and together constitute an unearthed gem of black womens fiction. (Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of <em>And Still I Rise</em>)
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  Nine Floors Up
  
  
  An Interracial Love Story
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A Novel by
  
  
  Tucora Monique
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright 2019 © by Tucora Monique
  
  
  Published by Major Key Publishing, LLC
  
  
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  storage without express permission by the publisher.
  
  
  This is an original work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents
  are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and
  any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  Contains explicit language & adult themes suitable for ages 16+
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
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