In 16 interconnected stories, readers follow a young girl as she chronicles the fumbles and multiple failures of her family and others like them. Loretta is split between the dull, predictable lives of whites like her family and the magical world of blacks.
- ISBN10 0679734112
- ISBN13 9780679734116
- Publish Date 3 September 1991 (first published 17 January 1990)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 July 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Random House USA Inc
- Imprint Vintage Books
- Edition Vintage Contemporaries ed
- Format Paperback
- Pages 15
- Language English