Description
In these luminous, sharply observed stories, Ann Petry turns a keen eye to the African American experience—where identity is negotiated in everyday moments and where race relations shape what people dare to hope for. Across a range of characters, a retired Black professor’s life is upended by violence and coercion, while a young girl grows up watching how love, power, and intrusion can fracture a family’s sense of safety and privacy. Petry’s narratives braid intimate emotion with social pressure, revealing how dignity, fear, desire, and resilience collide in the spaces between public judgment and private longing. With her clear, unsentimental realism and deep psychological insight, she crafts stories that feel both specific in their circumstances and universal in their human stakes.
Available Editions
paperback
HarperCollins Publishers
Published Jan 1, 2023
301 pages
ISBN: 9780063260184
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Details
First Published
1971
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Miss Muriel and Other Stories by Ann Petry.