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Break Any Woman Down: Stories

Break Any Woman Down: Stories

Johnson, Dana

Paperback

Series: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $23.95

ISBN10: 0820344494
ISBN13: 9780820344492
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Oct 15 2012
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

In Break Any Woman Down, Dana Johnson explores race, identity, and alienation with unflinching honesty and vibrant language. Hip and seductive, her stories often feature women discovering their identities through sexual and emotional intimacy with the men in their lives.

In the title story, La Donna is a black stripper whose white boyfriend, an actor in adult movies, insists that she stop stripping. In Melvin in the Sixth Grade, eleven-year-old Avery has a crush on a white boy from Oklahoma who, like Avery, is an outsider in their suburban Los Angeles school. Markers is as much about a woman's relationship with her mother as it is about the dissolution of her relationship with an older Italian man.

Dana Johnson has an intuitive sense of character and a gift for creating authentic voices. She effortlessly captures the rhythmic vernaculars of Los Angeles, the American South, and various immigrant communities as she brings to life the sometimes heavyhearted, but always persevering, souls who live there.

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