"The dynamic Brooklyn cityscape serves as the backdrop in this beguiling collection of short stories. Grayson's tenth volume of fiction introduces a multicultural multitude of characters, including a teen lesbian from Uzbekistan who works as a Brooklyn Cyclones hot-dog mascot and a gay black student whose Pakistani roommate's pet monkey helps him find acceptance on a mildly homophobic campus. In other stories, like 'Branch Libraries of Southeastern Brooklyn' and 'The Lost Movie Theaters of Southeastern Brooklyn and Rockaway Beach,' the author maps out memories against the geography of his beloved Brooklyn, with excursions to Los Angeles and South Florida. Grayson's low-key, conversational prose is injected with flashes of wry wit...A funny, odd, somehow familiar and fully convincing fictional world." - Kirkus Discoveries, 4/13/06
- ISBN10 1257323547
- ISBN13 9781257323548
- Publish Date 27 May 2011 (first published 23 May 2006)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook
- Language English